The meeting aims to provide a friendly and useful forum for the interchange of ideas and interaction amongst researchers, designers and scholars in the academic and professional community to share advances in High Performance and Optimum Design of Structures and Materials.

The conference addresses issues involving advanced types of structures, particularly those based on new concepts or new materials and the system design. Contributions are expected to highlight the latest development in design, optimisation, manufacturing and experimentation in those areas. The meeting also aims to search for higher performance sustainable materials, which are now receiving increased attention.

In the field of design optimisation, the conference welcomes contributions on numerical methods and different optimization techniques, as well as advances in new software. Formulations of optimization on life cycle and fail-safe design are very much welcomed. Optimization problems of interest to the meeting involve those related to size, shape and topology of structures and materials and their applications in automotive, aerospace and civil engineering as well as architecture and biomechanics.