• Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
  
• GKSS Research Center, Hamburg-Geesthacht, Germany
  
• Ecole Central de Paris, Paris, France
  
• Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
  
• Zhejiang University, Hongzhou, China
  
• USNCCM: United State Congress on Computational Mechanics
  
• IACM: International Association for Computational Mechanics
  
• AIST: Association for Iron and Steel Technology
  
• ASME: American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Sections Chicago and Skokie Valley, Illinois, U.S.A.
  
• ASCE: American Society of Civil Engineers
  
• Structure Engineers Association of Illinois