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Preliminaries
1	PLATES AND SHELLS
1.1	Some Remarks About Piezoelectric Shells M. Bernadou and D. Haenel	1
1.2	The Partial Selective Reduced Integration Method and Applications to Shell Problems F. Brezzi	9
1.3	Stabilized MITC Plate Bending Elements M. Lyly and R. Stenberg	11
1.4	Benchmark Finite Element Analysis of Cylindrical Shells J. Pitkaranta, T. Léino and O. Ovaskainen	17
1.5	Mixed hp Finite Elements for Plates M. Suri and R. Stenberg	21
1.6	A Quadrilateral Discrete Kirchhoff Finite Element for Building Slab Analysis M.N. De Rezende and J. Batista de Paiva	25
1.7	Mixed Finite Elements for Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model C. Chinosi and C. Lovadina	33
1.8	The Locking Phenomenon when Solving Reissner-Mindlin Problems with Finite Elements L.D. Croce and T. Scapolla	39
1.9	Analysis of the Behaviour and Performance of a Reformulated Four Node Shell Element D. Briassoulis	47
1.10	A Nine-Node Stress Resultant Integrally Stiffened Shell Element M. Chipalo, P. Bettess and J.W. Bull	57
1.11	Galerkin Elements for Vibration of Nonuniform Plates A.Y.T. Leung	63
1.12	Adaptive Mesh Generation on Arbitrarily Curved Shell Elements M. Baumann, J. Riccius and K. Schweizerhof	75
2	INFINITE ELEMENTS
2.1	A Novel Infinite Element in Three Dimensional Analysis A.S. Bazaraa, A.Y. Akl and N.A. El-Esnawy	87
3	BOUNDARY ELEMENT-FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
3.1	Dynamic Interaction Effects of Dam-Foundation-Reservoir Systems Evaluated by an FE-BE Method in the Time Domain T. Ohmachi and S. Kataoka	99
3.2	The FEM and BEM in Plane Elastic Bodies with Fractal Geometry of Boundaries and Interfaces O.K. Panagouli and P.D. Panagiotopoulos	107
4	MATERIAL MODELLING
4.1	Microphysically based Material Model Applied to Nonlinear Structural Analysis U. Kowalsky, M. Schwesig and H. Ahrens	117
4.2	Numerical Analysis of Loacalization Phenomena in Ductile and Brittle Materials T. Lodygowski, M. Lengnick and E. Stein	127
4.3	Flows of Viscoplastic Materials: Models and Computations T.C. Papanastasiou and A.G. Boudouvis	135
4.4	Numerical Analysis of Discontinuities in Geomechanics M.H.F. Melao Barros and M. Eugenia Rocha	145
4.5	Nonlinear Analysis using Ramberg-Osgood Equation on Eutectic Tin-Lead Solder Joints M.H.C. Cheng, C.M.L. Wu and J.K.L. Lai	151
4.6	A Model with Tension Softening for Concrete Beams under Combined Torsion, Flexure, Shear and Prestressing C.G. Karayannis	161
4.7	Appraisal of Lade's Elasto-Plastic Stress-Strain Model for Cohesionless Soil E.A. Dickin and G.J.W. King	169
4.8	Rheology of Prestressed Cable Structures S. Kmet	185
4.9	Constitutive Modelling of Reinforced Concrete for Impact Failure Problems L.J. Sluys	201
4.10	Mechanical Behaviour of a Current Limiter Structure by a Homogenization Method F. Stifkens and P. Thomas	209
5	COMPUTATIONAL PLASTICITY
5.1	The New Abilities of FEM-Multielements A.M. Protsenko	215
6	SOLUTION TECHNIQUES
6.1	A Non-Linear Solution Procedure for Structures with Strain-Softening Material Y. Duan and I.M. May	223
7	EDUCATION AND FINITE ELEMENT METHODS
7.1	New Challenges for FEM Educators G. Rakowski and W. Gilewski	231

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