Innovative Computational Methods for Structural Mechanics
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping

1. MA62 - A FRONTAL CODE FOR SPARSE POSITIVE-DEFINITE SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS FROM FINITE ELEMENT APPLICATIONS, I.S. Duff+* and J.A. Scott+, +Centre Europeen de Recherche et de Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), Toulouse, France, *Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Oxfordshire, England, UK	1
2. DUAL DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION SOLUTION TECHNIQUES ON WORKSTATION CLUSTERS, D.C. Harbis and M. Papadrakakis, Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research, National Technical University of Athens, Greece	27
3. BLOCK DIAGONAL PRECONDITIONERS FOR THE SCHUR COMPLEMENT METHOD, L.M. Carvalho and L. Giraud, Centre Europeen de Recherche et de Formation Avancee en Calcul Scientifique (CERFACS), Toulouse, France	55
4. DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION TECHNIQUES: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS ON HP-CONVEX S-CLASS SYSTEMS, N. Fornasari+, G. Gazzaniga*, S. Rovida* and G. Sacchi*, +C.I.L.E.A., Segrate, Italy, *Istituto di Analisi Numerica - C.N.R., Pavia, Italy	77
5. USE OF HYBRID MIXED FINITE ELEMENT MODELS FOR THE CHARACTERISATION OF THE BOUNDARY LAYER IN REISSNER-MINDLIN PLATES, E.B.R. Pereira and J.P. Moitinho de Almeida, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal	97
6. PARALLEL SOLUTION TECHNIQUES FOR HYBRID MIXED FINITE ELEMENT MODELS, I. Cismasiu+, J.P. Moitinho de Almeida+, L.M.S. Castro+ and D.C. Harbis*, +Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, *Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research, National Technical University of Athens, Greece	109
7. PARALLEL DYNAMIC RELAXATION FORMFINDING, P. Ivanyi and B.H.V. Topping, Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom	127
8. MESH OPTIMALITY CRITERIA AND REMESHING STRATEGIES FOR SINGULAR POINT PROBLEMS, O.J.B. Almeida Pereira+ and G. Bugeda*, +Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal, *International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain	149
9. PARALLEL ADAPTIVE MESH GENERATION AND GEOMETRIC MODELLING USING NURBS, B. Cheng and B.H.V. Topping, Department of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom	163
10. INNOVATIVE COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION, M. Papadrakakis+, Y. Tsompanakis+, N.D. Lagaros+, E. Hinton*, J. Sienz*,G. Thierauf# and J. Cai#, +Institute of Structural Analysis and Seismic Research, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, *Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom, #Department of Civil Engineering, University of Essen, Germany	195
11. SOME STUDIES ON INTEGRATING TOPOLOGY AND SHAPE OPTIMIZATION, J. Sienz+, E. Hinton+, G. Bugeda* and S. Bulman+, +Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom, *International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain	223
12. A COMBINED ALGORITHM BASED ON GENETIC ALGORITHMS AND EVOLUTION STRATEGIES, J. Cai and G. Thierauf, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Essen, Germany	257
13. COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF PROFILE EXTRUSION DIES, J. Sienz, C.E.K. Silva and E. Hinton, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Wales, Swansea, United Kingdom	271
14. AUTOMATIC DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES WITH PARALLEL COMPUTING, C. Butenweg and G. Thierauf, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Essen, Germany	305

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