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Preliminaries Volume 9
Preliminaries Volume 10
1	PROFESSIONAL ISSUES
1.1	The Use of Information Technology in Construction Related Consultancies B.E. Tuckwood	1
1.2	The Computer in the Construction Industry F.T. Najafi	9
1.3	PC CAD Comes of Age L.A. Cheney and R.A. Ryder	17
1.4	Constructability and Detailed Design G.F. Jergeas, A.H. Tyler and R. McCaffer	23
2	THE USE OF COMPUTERS IN CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT
2.1	Computer Aided Construction Project Management R.M.W. Horner,A.J. Mair, K.M. Peebles and R. Zakieh	29
2.2	MFMR: Micro-Computerized Five Minute Rating F-S. Liou	39
2.3	A Contract Valuation System D.J. Schofield	45
2.4	Dynamic Simulation Applied to Materials Handling in High Rise Construction D.A. Wijesundera, P.O. Olomolaiye and F.C. Harris	51
2.5	A STE based Data Capture and Information System for the Construction Industry M.T. James and A. Thorpe	57
2.6	Using Computers to Aid Integraton of Some Construction Management Tasks M.J. Mawdesley, W.H. Askew and J. Taylor	63
2.7	Application of Database Management Systems in Productivity Analysis R.M.W. Horner and B.T. Talhouni	69
2.8	Time and Cost Risk Analysis G. Willmer	77
2.9	A Software Package for Cost Analysis and Estimating for Masonry Contractors F-S. Liou	85
2.10	Computerized Crane Selection and Placement for the Construction Site C.W. Farrell and K.C. Hover	91
3	COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
3.1	Interactive Computer-Aided Formwork Design J.H.M. Tah and A.D.F. Price	95
3.2	Computer Aided Design/Drafting Management within the United States Air Force Logistics Command Civil Engineering Organization W.D. Alley	105
3.3	The Need for an Integrated 2D/3D CAD System in Structural Engineering A.S. Watson and C.J. Anumba	111
3.4	A Teachning Company Programme to Introduce CAD into a Medium Sized Consultancy Practice A.J. Chadwick, M.H. Dawes, S. Bryant and S. Ratledge	119
4	PRE AND POST PROCESSING FOR STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN
4.1	Elements of Formian H. Nooshin and P. Disney	127
4.2	A Connectivity Coordinate System for Node and Element Ordering A. Kaveh	149
5	ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES
5.1	Functional Modelling of the Constructional Steelwork Industry P.B. Hirst and A.S. Watson	157
5.2	Production Related Design of Heavy Steelwork Box Columns M.M.M. Zayyat, N.J. Smith and D.A. Nethercot	171
5.3	Automatic Design System for Steel Frames Y-B. Yang and C-C. Kuo	177
6	ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF REINFORCED CONCRETE STRUCTURES
6.1	Second Stage Concrete Stress Analysis Around a Pelton Turbine E.C. Kalkani and A. Nicolopoulos	183
6.2	Instability of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Walls S.E. El-Metwally, A.F. Ashour and S.A. Saafan	191
6.3	Study of Bond Strength Reliability of RC Beams S.A. Mirza	203
6.4	Life-Cycle Studies of a Concrete Structure using Simulation on a Microcomputer S. Gowripalan, J. Shakil and G. Singh	209
7	STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS AND DESIGN
7.1	Saint-Venant Torsional Properties of Concrete Sections D. Johnson	217
7.2	Application of the Finite Difference Technique to the Analysis of Flexible Riser Systems P.A. Brown, A. Soltanahmadi and R. Chandwani	225
7.3	A Time Saving Numerical Technique with Displacement Control for the Analysis of Frame Structures S.E. El-Metwally and H.M. Hosny	233
7.4	Numerical Analysis of Sandwich Beams T.A.M. Salet and S.A. Hamelink	237
7.5	Static Analysis of Helicoidal Bars S.A. Al-Ghamdi and J.J. Tuma	247
7.6	Exact Geometry Considerations in Buckling Analysis of Trusses R. Levy, O. Vilnay and K.B. Archampong	259
7.7	Some Recent Applications of the Discrete Element Method H.B. Harrison	269
7.8	Force Recovery Procedures in Nonlinear Analysis Y-B. Yang and L-J. Leu	275
7.9	Airport Pavement Evaluation based on Falling Weight Deflectometer Measurements A.A.H. Sha'ath	281
7.10	Higher Order Theories for Thick Layers of Transversely Isotropic Material with Loading Symmetric About the Middle Plane S. Faraji	287
7.11	Residual Strength of Space Trusses with Damaged Members H-S Shen, Z. Yuan and S-P. Lin	293
7.12	Improving the Efficiency of Preconditioning for Iterative Methods M. Papadrakakis and M.C. Dracopoulos	297
8	FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS SYSTEMS
8.1	Recent Developments in the LUSAS Finite Element System L.P.R. Lyons, A.J. Rent, A.P. Bell and A.J.L. Crook	307
8.2	Large Concrete Structure Computing Involving a Microcomputer Implementation of the FEM J. Texereau and R. Souchet	315
8.3	The FELASH Suite of Programs for the Analysis of Axisymmetric Shells J.M. Rotter	323
9	NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
9.1	Non-Linear Finite Element Dynamic Analysis of Two-Dimensional Concrete Structures F.B.A. Beshara and K.S. Virdi	329
9.2	General Eigenvalue Test for Nonlinear Finite Elements W. Liu and Y-B. Yang	345
9.3	Numerical Study of Speciment Subjected to Shear Compression Stress Field J. Davies	351
9.4	Use of Noneleastic Stress Fields in the Design of Reinforced Concrete Slabs P. Bhatt and M. Benredouane	361
9.5	Crack Propagation Analysis in Civil Engineering Structures T. Taniguchi	371
10	ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF TENSION STRUCTURES
10.1	Interactive Graphic CAD for Tension Structures C.F. Ong, D.S. Wakefield and M.R. Barnes	1
10.2	Three Dimensional Cable Elements K. Ahmadi-Kashani	7
10.3	Aids for the Conceptual Design of Prestressed Membrane Structures D.A. Chamberlain	15
10.4	The Responses of Air-Supported Structures to Gust Loading M.R. Barnes	21
11	DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
11.1	Dynamic Analysis of Layered Beams M. Heininsuo, S. Malmi and A. Miettinen	29
11.2	On the Accuracy of a Mode Superposition Method in Nonlinear Dynamics M.T.H. Elkatt and M.A. Millar	37
11.3	Computing Crowd Loads using a Nonlinear Equation of Motion A. Ebrahimpour, R.L. Sack and P.D. Van Cleek	47
12	BRIDGE ENGINEERING
12.1	Effect of Change of the Flexural Rigidity in Oblique Directions on the Behaviour of Anisotropic Skew Plates M. Kamel	53
12.2	Dynamic Instability of Suspension Bridges T.J.A. Agar	63
13	EARTHQUAKE AND SEISMIC ENGINEERING
13.1	Sensitivity Study of Optimum Seismic Intensity based on Minimization Method of Expected Total Cost M. Matsushima, K. Matui and S. Ide	73
13.2	Behaviour of Tunnels under Seismic Loads A.K. Akl, M. Sobaih and M.M. Maher	81
14	ANALYSIS OF PLATES AND SHELLS
14.1	Computer Generated Elasto-Plastic Design Data for Pressure Loaded Circular Plates G.J. Turvey and M. Salehi	89
14.2	Analysis of Radically Tapered Circular Plate Sectors by Finite Difference A.K. Azad, M.K. Abdullah and M.H. Baluch	103
14.3	Transition Elements in Plate/Shell Problems C.K. Choi, Y.M. Park, J.W. Seo and W.H. Lee	111
15	STRUCTURAL RE-ANALYSIS
15.1	Norm Optimization Techniques for Improved Structural Reanalysis S. Taye	117
16	OPTIMUM STRUCTURAL DESIGN
16.1	Feasibility and Optimality in Structural Design U. Kirsch	125
16.2	Minimum-Cost Design of Reinforced Concrete Structures S. Kanagasundaram and B.L. Karihaloo	133
16.3	Optimum Design of Steel Frames with Stability Constraints M.P. Saka	141
16.4	Minimum Weight Design of Steel Frames H.F. Erbatur and M.M. Al-Hussainy	157
16.5	A Numerical Model for the Computer-Aided Optimum Design of Steel Frames V.N. Alekhin and Y.I. Ol'kov	161
16.6	Analysis of Optimized Plates for Buckling R. Levy and A. Ganz	167
16.7	Optimum Design of Geometrically Nonlinear Space Trusses M.P. Saka and M. Ulker	175
17	WATER AND PUBLIC HEALTH ENGINEERING
17.1	Computer Modelling of a Hydrological Forecasting System for Catchment Areas D.A. Fernando and K.S. Fernando	185
17.2	A Method of Optimizing Water Supply Systems J. Bauerle and L. Grundig	197
17.3	A Program for Design of MEL Culverts L.T. Isaacs	203
18	GEOTECHNICAL ENGINEERING
18.1	Load Displacement Relationship for Horizontal Rectangular Anchors in Sand B.M. Das and V.K. Puri	207
18.2	Stability and Dynamics of Piles Subjected to Nonconservative Loads M.A. de Rosa	213
18.3	The Management of Site Investigation Data using "STRATA 3" L.M. Greenshaw, S.P. Bentley and S.M.M. Rice	223
18.4	Undrained Finite Element Analysis of Soil for Collapse Load with the Effective Stress Method E.X. Song and A. Verruijt	229
18.5	Bearing Capacity of Strip Foundation on Top of a Clay Slope B.M. Das and V.K. Puri	235
18.6	Microcomputer based Reliability Analysis in Geotechnics G. Singh and C.M. Chung	241
18.7	New Developments in Comuter Aided Prediction of Soil Base Settlements A.N. Alekhin and B.V. Nikulin	249
18.8	Analysis of Trail Track Structures (ARTS) G.P. Raymond	255
18.9	Static and Dynamic Behaviour of Plates on Winkler Soil C. Franciosi and V. Franciosi	263
19	TRANSPORT SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
19.1	Toll Booth Management via Simulation E. Kopanezou, S. Lambropoulos and N. Manolopoulos	275
19.2	The Contribution of Expert Opinion to the Design of High Capacity Bus Priority Systems N.A. Tyler	285
19.3	A Time Series Model for Daily Traffic Volume Forecasting H. Kopanezou and Th. Trivellas	295
20	DATA ACQUISITION AND PROCESSING
20.1	A Novel Dynamic Deflection Measurement System for Large Structures J.G. Leitch, A. Thompson and T.D. Sloan	301
20.2	CAT: Computer Aided Testing System I. Shehata	307
20.3	Development of an Automatic Data Collection System for a Major Box Girder Bridge T.D. Sloan and A. Thompson	313
21	COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
21.1	HYPOL - A Computer Aid for Teaching Hydraulic Design L.T. Isaacs	319
21.2	The Use of Computer Graphics for Computer Assisted Learning in Civil Engineering I.N.A. Cheah	323

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