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Preliminaries
1. Parallel Visualisation of Computational Engineering Data, J.W. Jones and N.P. Weatherill	1
2. Developing Parallel Finite Element Software Using MPI, P.K. Jimack and N. Touheed	15
3. Mesh Generation Methods, F. Neugebauer	39
4. Mesh Refinement Methods, F. Neugebauer	57
5. Partitioning of Computational Meshes, L. Lämmer and B.H.V. Topping	75
6. Techniques for Parallel Adaptivity, P.K. Jimack	105
7. Parallel Solution Methods for Structural Mechanics Problems, L. Lämmer	119
8. An Object Oriented Approach to Parallel Computing, P. Devloo	133
9. An Object Oriented Approach to Finite Element Programming, P. Devloo and I. Klapka	155
10. Parallelisation of a Finite Element Program, P. Devloo and E.C. da Silva	173
11. Evolution Strategies and Genetic Algorithms and their Parallelisation for Structural Optimization: Part 1 Fundamentals, J. Cai and G. Thierauf	187
12. Evolution Strategies and Genetic Algorithms and their Parallelisation for Structural Optimization: Part 2 Parallelisation and Applications, J. Cai and G. Thierauf	195
13. Evolutionary Algorithms applied to Structural Optimization Problems, M. Papadrakakis, N.D. Lagaros and G. Kokassalakis	207

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