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Preliminaries
1	STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
1.1	New Computing Systems, Future High Performance Computing Environments and their Implications on Large-Scale Problems A.K. Noor	1
2	SOLUTION PROCEDURES FOR LARGE SCALE PROBLEMS
2.1	High Performance Computing of Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Spline Collocation C.C. Christara	23
2.2	A Graph-Theoretical Method for Decomposition in Finite Element Analysis A. Kaveh and G.R. Roosta	35
2.3	Algorithm for Parallel Assembling of the Stiffness Matrix of Structural Analysis M.N. De Rezende and J.B. Batista de Paiva	43
2.4	Iterative Solution of Multiple Linear Systems: Theory, Practice, Parallelism and Applications E. Gallopoulos and V. Simoncini	47
2.5	A Constrained Element-by-Element Method for Slightly Compressible and Incompressible Materials and its Parallel Implementation on Transputers M.H.B.M. Shariff	53
2.6	Performance Comparison of Two Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel Architectures M. Razaz and K.A. Marlow	59
2.7	A Parallel Iterative Method for Solving Linear Systems on a Shared Memory MIMD Computers N.M. Missirlis and F.I. Tjaferis	69
3	PARALLEL STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONS
3.1	Adaptive Finite Element Multigrid Methods on Parallel Computers H. Misra and I.D. Parsons	75
3.2	Adaption of a Finite Element Solver for the Analysis of Flexible Mechanisms to Parallel Processing Systems D. Coulon, M. Geradin and C. Farhat	83
3.3	An Implementation of a Generalized Lanczos Procedure for Structural Dynamic Analysis on Distributed Memory Computers D.R. Mackay and K.H. Law	93
3.4	Domain Decomposition Pcg Methods for Serial and Parallel Processing M. Papadrakakis and S. Bitzarakis	107
4	DOMAIN DECOMPOSITION AND PARTITIONING
4.1	Combined Domain Decomposition-Fictitious Domain Method with Lagrange Multipliers for the Unsteady Navier Stokes Equations R. Glowinski, T.W. Pan and J. Periaux	119
4.2	Solving Large Scale Structural Problems on Parallel Computers using Domain Decomposition Techniques P. Le Tallec, E. Saltel and M. Vidrascu	127
4.3	A Comparison of Problem Partitioning Algorithms for the Intel Paragon B. Hendrickson and R. Leland	133
4.4	Parallel Domain Decomposition Algorithms for Solving Plate and Shell Problems P. Le Tallec, J. Mandel and M. Vidrascu	139
4.5	Parallel Generation of Partitioned, Unstructured Meshes D.C. Hodgson and P.K. Jimack	147
4.6	A Domain Decomposition for Large Scale Structural Optimization F. Spengemann and G. Thierauf	159
4.7	Automatic Partitioning of Analysis Models using the Medial Axis Transform T.S. Li, C.G. Armstrong and R.M. McKeag	165
4.8	Subdomain Generation using Multiple Neural Networks Models A. Bahreininejad, B.H.V. Topping and A.I. Khan	173
5	PARALLEL ADAPTIVE COMPUTATIONS
5.1	Adaptive Finite Element Analysis of Plate Problems for Parallel Computers L. Laemmer, U. Meissner, R. Muecke and J. Olden	185
5.2	A Nonlinear Finite Element Program with Adaptive Mesh Refinement for a MIMD Parallel Computer E. Stein, O. Klaas and R. Niekamp	191
6	PARALLEL NON-LINEAR ANALYSIS
6.1	An Efficient Algorithm for Crash Recovery in Parallel Systems using a Non-FIFO Channel: An Optimistic Approach K.H. Lee and J.R. Kenevan	199
6.2	Data Parallel Finite Element Computation for Thermo-Viscoelastic Composite Structures S. Yi, M.F. Ahmad and A. Ramesh	207
6.3	Parallel Dynamic Relaxation and Domain Decomposition B.H.V. Topping, A.I. Khan and J.K. Wilson	215
6.4	Collapse Analysis of Steel Platforms on Hypercube Computers N.F.F. Ebecken and M.R. Justino Filho	233
7	PARALLEL STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION
7.1	A Parallel Evolution Strategy for Solving Discrete Structural Opimization J. Cai and G. Thierauf	239
8	GRAPHICS AND VISUALISATION
8.1	Visualisation and Analysis of Multiprocessor DSP Design Implementations K.A. Marlow and M. Razaz	245

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