International Conference on Vibration Problems

The purpose of the ICOVP 2023 Conference is to bring together scientists, young researchers and engineers with different backgrounds, actively working on vibration problems of engineering both in theoretical and applied fields. ICOVP 2023 aims to combine expertise in the vibration field by stressing common measurement, modeling, analysis and control technologies. The conference provides further impetus for cross-fertilization of ideas between industry and academia.

Important Dates

Professional Partners

Current Sponsor

Research Council Sponsor

Publications

• Select papers from the conference will be published by Springer as a proceedings book volume. Springer will conduct quality checks on the accepted papers and only papers that pass these checks will be published.
• Springer Nature does not charge any money for publication of Non-Open Access content. Abstracts/extended abstracts and short papers (less than 4 pages) are not considered for publication.

Conference Topics

Chairman

Dr Jamil Renno

Co-chairpersons

Kolkata, India Paritosh Biswas, Jalpaiguri, India Jiří Náprstek, Prague, Czech Republic 

Keynote Speakers

Professor Len Gelman
Professor, Chair in Signal Processing
University of Huddersfieldg

Prof. Len Gelman, PhD, Dr. of Sciences (Habilitation) joined University of Huddersfield as a Professor, Chair in Signal Processing/Condition Monitoring and Director of Centre for Efficiency and Performance Engineering, in 2017 from Cranfield University, where he worked as Professor and Chair in Vibro-Acoustical Monitoring since 2002. Len developed novel condition/health monitoring technologies for aircraft engines, gearboxes, bearings, turbines, compressors and composite/concrete materials and structures. He published more than 250 publications, 17 patents and is Co-Editor of 14 Springer books. Len is Fellow of: British Institute of NDT, International Association of Engineers and Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, the Executive Director, the International Society for Condition Monitoring, the Editor-in-Chief, the International Journal of Engineering Sciences (SCMR), Editor-in-Chief, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, the General Chair, annual International Condition Monitoring Conferences, Honorary Co-Chair, annual World Congresses of Engineering, Co-Chair, the International Congress COMADEM 2019 and Chair, International Scientific Committee of Third World Congress, Condition Monitoring. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the book series Condition Monitoring, Cooxmoor, Oxford, UK, Editor, Journal of Asian Scientific Research, the Associate Editor, International Journal Sensors, Associate Editor, International Journal Signal, Image and Video Processing, Springer, and Associate Editor, International Journal of Complex Engineering Systems. Len is Editorial Board Member of the International Journal Electronics, the International Journal Energies, the International Journal Applied Sciences, the International Journal Insight, the International Journal of Prognostics and Health Management, the International Journal of Basic and Applied Sciences, the International Journal Vibration and Acoustics Research, the International Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy and the International Journal Dynamics, Monitoring and Diagnostics. He was the General Chair, the First World Congress, Condition Monitoring, Chair, the Second World Congress, Engineering Asset Management and Chair, International Committee of Second World Congress, Condition Monitoring. Len is Chair of International CM Groups of International Committee of NDT and European Federation of NDT and a Member of ISO Technical Committee, Condition Monitoring. He has managed as the Principal Investigator contributions to multiple EU funded programs, UK DTI programs (4 grants), multiple EPSRC grants, Royal Society grant, USA National Academy of Sciences grant, USA National Research Council grant, and multiple industrial contracts, including multiple contracts with Rolls-Royce (6 contracts), contracts with SKF, Shell, Scottish Southern Energy (two contracts), Caterpillar (USA, two contracts), London Underground (three contracts) and Cranfield Boeing Centre of Excellence (3 contracts).

Professor Marian Wiercigroch
Sixth Century Chair in Applied Dynamics
School of Engineering
University of Aberdeen

Professor Marian Wiercigroch educated in Poland, US and UK holds a prestigious Sixth Century Chair in Applied Dynamics and he is a founding director of the Centre for Applied Dynamics Research at the University of Aberdeen. His area of research is theoretical and experimental nonlinear dynamics, which he applies to various engineering problems. Wiercigroch has published extensively (over 400 journal and conference papers) and sits on a dozen editorial boards of peer review journals. He is the Editor-In-Chief of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and a frequent keynote and plenary speaker at major international conferences. He is the inventor of new patented drilling technology called Resonance Enhanced Drilling and the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of a spinoff company iVDynamics Ltd. He has established in Aberdeen unique experimental laboratories allowing to investigate complex nonlinear dynamic interactions in mechanical systems with the focus on energy generation. He has received many awards and distinctions including a Senior Fulbright Scholarship (1994), Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (2009), DSc honoris causa by the Lodz University of Technology (2013), Distinguished Professorships at the Perm National Research Polytechnic University (2017), Balseiro Institute (2018) and Yanshan University (2021), a Scottish Champion of Knowledge Exchange (2020) and has been a panelist of the Research Excellence Framework (2014, 2021) assessing quality of research in the UK.

Professor Mohammad Osman Tokhi
Professor
London South Bank University, UK

Professor Tokhi received his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Kabul University, Afghanistan in 1978 and PhD degree from Heriot-Watt University, UK in 1988. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), Senior Member of IEEE (Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineering), Member of IIAV (International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration) and Member of CLAWAR (Climbing and Walking Robots) Association. He has worked for industry and at various higher education establishments. He is currently Professor of Robotics and Control at the School of Engineering, London South Bank University, UK. His current research interests include Active Noise and Vibration Control, Adaptive/intelligent Control, Soft-computing Modelling and Control of Dynamic Systems, and Assistive Robotics. He has published extensively and has completed numerous projects in these areas. He is Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Low-Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, Editor of book series on Service Robotics (published by World Scientific Publishing Company), Co-editor of book series on Mobile Service Robotics (published by Elsevier Publishing Company), member of Editorial Advisory Board of Industrial Robot Journal. He has acted as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and member of editorial board of several other international journals. He is Chair of CLAWAR Association, Chair of BSI (British Standards Institute) Technical Committee AMT10 (Robotics) Sub-Committee-1 on Robot Ethics, Member of IFAC Technical Committees TC 3.1 (Computers for Control) and TC 3.2 (Computational Intelligence for Control), Member of IET Technical Advisory Panel of Concepts for Automation and Control Professional Network. He is Convenor of ISO technical committee TC299 (Robotics) working group WG2 – Service Robot Safety, Member of several working groups of ISO/TC299 – Robotics Committee, the IEC/TC62/SC62A – Common aspects of Electrical Equipment used in Medical Practice, and of BSI AMT/010 Robotics Committee.

Professor Li Cheng
Chair Professor
department of mechanical engineering
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Professor Li Cheng, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, is currently Chair Professor and Associate Dean (Research) of Faculty of Engineering of Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Dr. Cheng’s main research interest is acoustics, vibration and structural health monitoring. He published extensively (over 600 publications) in flagship journals in his research area (JSV, JASA, SHM, MSSP etc.) as well as in other top-notch journals such as Nature Materials, National Science Review, JMPS, Acta Materialia, Combustion & Flame etc.). He is the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Sound and Vibration, an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Structural Health Monitoring. He is a distinguished Fellow of the International Institutes of Acoustics and Vibration (IIAV) and Fellow of five other learned societies. Dr. Cheng was the Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering of PolyU, President of the Hong Kong Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. He is now a board director of IIAV and the President-elect of the International Institutes of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE).

Professor C Nataraj
Moritz Endowed Professor of Engineered Systems
Director, VCADS Research Center
Villanova University

Dr. C. Nataraj (Nat) is the Moritz Endowed Distinguished Professor in Engineered Systems and the Founding Director of the Villanova Center for Analytics of Dynamic Systems (http://vcads.org) at Villanova University. Nat is a 1982 BTech alumnus of IIT-M. He has been Chair of Mechanical Engineering, and the founding Director of the Center for Nonlinear Dynamics & Control. Nat has developed and taught over 23 courses and has been a university runner up for the Outstanding Teaching Award. He has published a textbook and 240+ peer-reviewed papers in dynamic systems, is a Life Fellow of ASME, the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Vibration Engineering Technologies and serves on the editorial board of three other international journals including Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing and Nonlinear Dynamics. Nat’s current research interests are in the intersection of physics-based engineering and machine learning with applications to mechanical, electromechanical and biomedical systems. He has received research funding from ONR, DARPA, NSF and NIH. Nat is the winner of the Villanova Outstanding Research Award. His research has received media attention including a TEDx talk, and articles in Forbes and Wired Magazines. Nat is the Senior Editor for Nodycast, a new podcast on Nonlinear Dynamics.

Mr. Bazil Basri
Principal Engineer / Vibration Specialist
Vibration Engineering, Xodus Group
Qatasgas Vibration Program

Bazil Basri has over 25 years’ combined experience, working on various site-based projects and consulting engineering roles in the oil and gas and automotive industries in the UK, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific region. Bazil is a Principal Engineer with Vibration Engineering within Xodus Group, and recently seconded to Qatargas Vibration Program (QVP), to provide site-based vibration specialist support in implementing long-term piping, structural, instrument, integrity management program across Qatargas on-site facilities. Bazil has been involved in various projects in investigation of pipework vibration problems which were concluded with successful vibration mitigation in various forms. These include anti-vibration clamp for small bore connection pipework, structural modification, and stiffening rings, viscous damper, and tuned mass damper installation for mainline pipework vibration problems related to flow turbulence, flow-induced pulsation, and mechanical excitation from rotating machineries. Prior to joining the industry, Bazil has developed research studies in vehicle vibration and ride comfort including measurement of psychophysical, biomechanical, human-seat system responses and seat effective amplitude transmissibility (SEAT). Bazil has presented and published papers on the research findings at specialist conferences and in reputable journals including Journal of Sound and Vibration, Ergonomics and Applied Ergonomics. Bazil had also peer reviewed papers for journal publication in Ergonomics. Bazil received his PhD from the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at University of Southampton. He is a chartered engineer registered with Engineering Council UK and The Institution of Engineering and Technology

Conference Venue

The Conference will take place at the heart of Qatar University’s campus, in the Sports and Events Complex, A07.
The Qatar University campus itself is within a small trip from the city. Visitors may prefer to stay at one of several nearby renowned five-star hotels, which are also half an hour drive from a number of popular tourist attractions.

Conference Committees

Upcoming ICOVP

The 16th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP 2025) will be held in Summer 2025 in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will be organized under the leadership of Professor Zuzana Dimitrovová of the Department of Civil Engineering, NOVA School of Science and Technology