摘要
This special issue on Advances in mechanical engineering from Latin-America contains papers that have been presented at COLIM 2014, the VIII Latin-American Congress on Mechanical Engineering held in Cuenca （Ecuador） from November 25 to 27, 2014. The conference has been the eighth event of a series of conferences which started in M^rida, Venezuela in1999 as a conference activity mainly for promoting mechanical engineering in South America community. The previous conferences have been held in Quito, Ecuador in 2001, in Lima, Pere in 2003, in Morelia, Mexico in 2005, in Cecuta, Colombia in 2008, in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2010, and in Cuzco, Per（~ in 2012.
This special issue on Advances in mechanical engineering from Latin-America contains papers that have been presented at COLIM 2014, the VIII Latin-American Congress on Mechanical Engineering held in Cuenca （Ecuador） from November 25 to 27, 2014. The conference has been the eighth event of a series of conferences which started in M^rida, Venezuela in1999 as a conference activity mainly for promoting mechanical engineering in South America community. The previous conferences have been held in Quito, Ecuador in 2001, in Lima, Pere in 2003, in Morelia, Mexico in 2005, in Cecuta, Colombia in 2008, in Cochabamba, Bolivia in 2010, and in Cuzco, Per（~ in 2012.
