The conference will take place at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development [ttp://www.cdr-sp.ipleiria.pt/],School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal. The venue is located at an important industrial centre and historical city of Portugal, distant around 1 hour from Lisbon.

The International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Rapid Prototyping (VRAP), organised every two years since 2003, is designed to be a major forum for the Scientific exchange of multi-disciplinary and inter-organisational aspects of virtual and physical prototyping and related areas. VRAP aims at making a significant contribution for further development of these fields. In 2007, as in the two previous editions, we gathered participants from more than 20 countries. The Conference carries out a full paper submission and a rigorous peer review of all papers.

Accepted papers will be included in a Proceedings book with ISBN registration, published by Taylor & Francis.

Conference Topics

• Design
  • Biomimetics
  • Design for Bio Manufacturing
  • Design for Micro Manufacturing
  • Design for Rapid Manufacturing
  • Design for Sustainability
    
    
• CAD and 3D data acquisition technologies
  • 3D digitising
    
  • BioCAD
    
  • Fast geometrical modelling schemes
    
  • Haptic CAD
  • Image-based modelling systems
  • Metrology
  • nD Modelling
  • Photogrammetry
  • X-ray tomography and NMR
    
    
• Concurrent engineering
  • Collaborative decision-making
  • Concurrent product development
  • Frameworks for information sharing
    
    
• Virtual environments and simulation
  
  
• Intelligent computing
  • Internet-based product development
  • Knowledge based systems
  • Simulation and optimisation of manufacturing processes
  • Virtual and augmented reality
  • Virtual engineering and manufacturing
  • Virtual enterprise engineering
  • Web-based information system
    
    
• Materials
  • Advanced rapid prototyping, tooling and manufacturing materials
  • Biomaterials
  • Ceramics
  • Composites
  • Liquid Crystals
  • Metals
  • Polymers
• Rapid tooling and manufacturing
  • Conformal cooling
  • Small batch production methods
  • Systems for the direct manufacturing of metallic and ceramic components
    
    
• Advanced technologies
  • Advances on material removal and addition technologies
  • Hybrid systems
  • Microfabrication
  • Nanofabrication
  • Research on new additive and non-additive technologies
    
    
• Applications
  • Architecture and art
  • Aerospace industry
  • Automotive industry
  • Biomedical technology
  • Jewellery
  • Model-making and tool-making

Call for Papers

 Simple page abstracts addressing the conference themes are invited from all interested participants and can be submitted by email to
pbartolo@estg.ipleiria.pt or vrap@ipleiria.pt

Abstracts should be no more than 500 words in length and should summarise the intended content of the paper and the substantive issues
it will rise.

All abstracts and full papers will be rigorously refeered. All papers will be included in conference proceedings published on an ISBN numbered book, published by A.A. Balkema an imprint of Taylor&Francis Group and made available to delegates attending the conference.

Important Dates

Submission of Abstracts: 31 January 2009
Notification of acceptance: 16 February 2009

Submission of preliminary papers: 04 May 2009
Acceptance of papers with referee comments: 01 June 2009
Submission of revised camera-ready paper: 29 June 2009

Conference Chair

Paulo Jorge Bártolo
Coordinator of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria

INDEA (Campus 5)
Rua das Olhalvas
2414-016 Leiria
Portugal
Tel.: +351 244 845 056
Fax.: +351 244 845 059
Email.: pbartolo@estg.ipleiria.pt

Honorary Chairs

Gideon Levy, University of Applied Sciences St. Gallen, Switzerland
Terry Wohlers, Wohlers Associates, USA
Yongnian Yan, Tshingua University, China