Prof. J. N. Reddy is Distinguished Professor, Regents’ Professor, and inaugural holder of the Oscar S. Wyatt Endowed Chair in Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University, USA. He is the author of nearly 700 journal papers and 21 books (several with second, third, and fourth editions) on energy principles, variational methods, plates and shells, composite materials, mechanics of solids, and the finite element method (linear and nonlinear) and its applications. He has delivered over 175 plenary, keynote, and invited lectures at international conferences, and taught 116 short courses on continuum mechanics, variational methods, linear and nonlinear finite elements, composite materials, and nonlocal structural theories. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Foreign Fellow of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy of Engineering, and the Brazilian NationalAcademy of Engineering, and a honorary member of the European Academy of Engineering. He received numerous awards, and most recent one is the 2019 Timoshenko Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.Prof. C. M. Wang is the TMR Chair Professor of Structural Engineering at the School of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland, Australia. He is Chartered Structural Engineer, Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering, Fellow of the Academy of Engineering Singapore, Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Singapore, and Fellow of the Institution of Structural Engineers. His research focuses on structural stability, vibration, optimization, and very large floating structures, and he has published over 480 journal papers and 10 books in these areas. He is Editor‐in‐Chief of the International Journal of Structural Stability and Dynamics and an editorial board member of several journals, including Engineering Structures, OceanSystems Engineering, Structures and the International Journal of Applied Mechanics. His numerous awards include the 2019 Nishino Medal, 2019 JN Reddy Medal, 2014 Keith Eaton Award, 2009 Lewis Kent Award for his original and sustained contributions to Structural Mechanics and leadership in Structural Engineering.Dr. Van Hai Luong is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam. He holds a Masters in Civil Engineering from the University of Liège, Belgium, and Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. His research interests are in the areas of structural stability, vibration, optimization, plates and shells, and computational mechanics. He has published many scientific papers, author of the books: “Dynamics of Structures” published in 2010 and “Moving Element Method” published in 2020 (in Vietnamese). He has won many awardsthat include the First Prize of the 3rd Youth Conference of Scientific Researches of HCMUT, the 4th Eureka Scientific Awards, the National Scientific Researches Awards, the Prize of Strength of Materials in the National Olympic Competition.Dr. Anh Tuan Le is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at the Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology (HCMUT), Vietnam National University Ho Chi Minh City (VNU-HCM), Vietnam. He holds Masters in Civil Engineering from HCMUT, and Ph.D. from the Yeungnam University, Korea. His research interests include building materials, geopolymer material and high-performance concrete.
