Computational Mechanics for the Twenty-First Century
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping

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1. PATHWAY TO THE FUTURE OF SIMULATION AND LEARNING, A.K. Noor, University of Virginia, NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA, United States of America	1
2. ON THE STATE-OF-THE-ART OF FINITE ELEMENT PROCEDURES AND A MESHLESS TECHNIQUE, J.-F. Hiller, S. De and K.J. Bathe, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States of America	23
3. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN THE NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF MECHANICAL SYSTEMS, B.A. Szabo, Center for Computational Mechanics, Washington University, St Louis, MO, United States of America	51
4. RECENT ADVANCES IN FINITE ELEMENT TEMPLATES, C.A. Felippa, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Centre for Space Aerospace Structures, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States of America	71
5. RELIABILITY OF FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR THIN SHELLS, D. Chapelle, INRIA, Rocquencourt, France	99
6. HYBRID STRESS ELEMENTS FOR ACCURATE SOLUTION OF ELASTICITY PROBLEMS WITH TRACTION-FREE SEGMENTS, B.L. Karihaloo and Q.Z. Xiao, School of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom	109
7. INVERSE METHODS APPLIED TO METAL FORMING PROCESSES, L. Fourment and J.L. Chenot, CEMEF, Ecole des Mines de Paris, Sophia Antipolis, France	127
8. FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN MICROMECHANICS OF COMPOSITES AND FOAM MATERIALS, F.G. Rammerstorfer and H.J. Böhm, Institute of Lightweight Structures and Aerospace Engineering Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria	145
9. MODELLING AND DESIGN OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH INTEGRATED SENSORS AND ACTUATORS, C.A. Mota Soares, C.M. Mota Soares, and V.M. Franco Correia, Instituto de Engenharia Mecânica, IDMEC, Lisbon, Portugal	163
10. OPTIMAL DESIGN AND ACTIVE CONTROL FOR ORTHOTROPIC TWO-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES, C. Cinquini, Dipartimento di Meccanica Strutturale Università di Pavia, Italy	187
11. ISSUES IN THE DESIGN OF COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE SIMULATION OF CLOSELY COUPLED MULTI-PHYSICS PROCESSES ON PARALLEL SYSTEMS, M. Cross, C. Baily, K. Pericleous, T.N. Croft and G. Taylor, Centre for Numerical Modelling and Process Analysis, The University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom	205
12. LARGE-SCALE AEROSPACE SIMULATIONS USING UNSTRUCTURED GRID TECHNOLOGY, N.P. Weatherill, K. Morgan, O. Hassan and J.W. Jones, Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Swansea, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom	219
13. A TIME DOMAIN FINITE VOLUME ALGORITHM FOR ELECTROMAGNETIC SCATTERING SIMULATION, K. Morgan, O. Hassan, K.A. Sorenson and N.P. Weatherill, Department of Civil Engineering, University College of Swansea, Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom	245
14. INSTABILITY ANALYSIS OF FLUID-SOLID SYSTEMS, X. Wang, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, United States of America	261
15. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN STRUCTURAL COMPUTATIONAL STOCHASTIC MECHANICS, G.I. Schuëller, Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria	281
16. ADVANCES IN LIFE-CYCLE RELIABILITY-BASED TECHNOLOGY FOR DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE OF STRUCTURAL SYSTEMS, D.M. Frangopol, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, United States of America	329
17. HEALTH MONITORING OF CIVIL ENGINEERING STRUCTURES, G. De Roeck, Departement Burgerlijke Bouwkunde, Afdeling Bouwmechanica, Faculteit Toegepaste Wetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium	261
18. HYDRAULIC AND STRUCTURAL STABILITY OF CONCRETE ARMOR UNITS, J.W. Tedesco and W.G. McDougal, Department of Civil Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, AL, United States of America	353
19. THE RATIONAL KRYLOV ALGORITHM FOR NONLINEAR EIGENVALUE PROBLEMS, P. Hager and N.E. Wiberg, Department of Structural Mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden	379
20. TOPOLOGY AND SHAPE STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION THAT MINIMIZES MAXIMUM STRESS AND MAXIMIZES STIFFNESS, G. Steven, Q. Li and Y.M. Xie, Department of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney, N.S.W., Australia	403
21. ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR LARGE-SCALE STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION, M. Papadrakakis and N.D. Lagaros, Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research, National Technical University, Athens, Greece	431
22. CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS, CELLULAR AUTOMATA AND COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE: APPLICATIONS IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SYNTHESIS, P. Hajela, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Aeronautical Engineering & Mechanics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States of America	451
23. NEURAL NETWORKS IN STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING: SOME RECENT RESULTS AND PROSPECTS FOR APLLICATIONS, Z. Waszczyszyn, Institute of Computer Methods in Civil Engineering, Cracow University of Technology, Cracow, Poland	479

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