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| Preliminaries |
| 1 | COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY |
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| 1.1 |
Computational Structures Technology - Leap Frogging into the Twenty-First Century
A.K. Noor |
1 |
| 2 | ADVANCES IN NEURAL NETWORKS AND EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTING |
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| 2.1 |
Biologically Inspired Computational Paradigms - Adaptive Solution Strategies for Multidisciplinary Structural Design
P. Hajela |
19 |
| 2.2 |
Direct Search, Stochastic Search and Darwinian Methods in Structural Optimization and Interactions with Parallel Computing
G. Thierauf |
31 |
| 2.3 |
Some Recent and Current Problems of Neurocomputing in Civil and Structural Engineering
Z. Waszczyszyn |
43 |
| 2.4 |
Truss Optimization using Genetic Algorithms
M.R. Ghasemi and E. Hinton |
59 |
| 2.5 |
A Neural Network Trained by Genetic Algorithm
W.M. Jenkins |
77 |
| 2.6 |
A Genetic Search based Arrangement of Load Combinations in Structural Frames
A. Arslan, P. Turgut and Y. Calayir |
85 |
| 2.7 |
Neural Networks in Structural Engineering: State of the Art
A. Berrais |
93 |
| 2.8 |
Residual Soil Modelling using Neural Networks
A.S. Dyminsky, E. Parente and C. Romanel |
103 |
| 3 | OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING |
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| 3.1 |
Towards Intelligent Objects in Finite Element Programming
P. Bomme and Th. Zimmermann |
107 |
| 3.2 |
Object-Oriented Implementation of Bandwidth, Profile and Wavefront Reduction Algorithms
R.R. Gajewski and P. Lompies |
115 |
| 3.3 |
Next Generation of O-O Database Techniques in Finite Element Analysis
K. Orsborn and T. Risch |
121 |
| 3.4 |
Object Oriented Programming of Engineering Numerical Applications
M. Ulbin, Z. Ren and J. Flasker |
137 |
| 3.5 |
Objects, Elements and Complexity
R.I. Mackie |
143 |
| 3.6 |
OOPAR: The Development of an Environment for Parallel Computing using the Object Oriented Programming Philosophy
P.R.B. Devloo, F.A. Menezes and E.C. Silva |
151 |
| 4 | CONCEPTUAL DESIGN AND DESIGN SYSTEMS |
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| 4.1 |
Automated Conceptual Design of Structural Systems
D.E. Grierson |
157 |
| 4.2 |
A Model for Communication Among Design Objects
J.A. Abdalla |
163 |
| 4.3 |
Structural Design - Could Artificial Intelligence Help?
B. Kumar |
169 |
| 5 | ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS |
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| 5.1 |
Knowledge-Based Design System Development through the Integration of Object-Oriented and Knowledge Modelling Methodologies
G. Bravo, F. Hernandez and A. Martin |
175 |
| 5.2 |
Knowledge-based Expert Systems: User Interface Implications
A. Berrais |
185 |
| 5.3 |
Case-based Reasoning in Bridge Design
H. Shiva Kumar and C.S. Krishnamoorthy |
197 |
| 5.4 |
MASCON - Masonry Pathology Expert System
C.A. Syrmakezis, E. Rouvas and G.K. Mikroudis |
207 |
| 5.5 |
Virtual Testing in a Safety-Critical Environment
N.J. Dullaway and A.J. Morris |
213 |
| 6 | WORLD WIDE WEB APPLICATIONS |
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| 6.1 |
Client-Server Adaptive Finite Element Analysis - A Distributed Heterogenous Computing Approach on the World Wide Web
A.I. Khan and M. Isreb |
219 |
| 6.2 |
WWW and Retaining Wall Design
Y.-P. Huang, C.-Y. Huang, S.-S. Chen and W.-C. Lin |
227 |
| 7 | PARTITIONING, PARALLEL MESH GENERATION AND PROCESSING |
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| 7.1 |
An Improved Dual Domain Decomposition Technique for Computational Structural Technology
M. Papadrakakis, S. Bitzarakis and A. Kotsopoulos |
239 |
| 7.2 |
An Evaluation Methodology for Automatic Mesh Partitioning Algorithms
S.-H. Hsieh and G.H. Paulino |
247 |
| 7.3 |
Residual Elimination Algorithm and its Application to Domain Decomposition
Gy. Molnarka and B. Torok |
253 |
| 7.4 |
A Mixed Method for Subdomain Generation for Parallel Processing
A. Kaveh and A. Davaran |
259 |
| 7.5 |
Load Balancing in Parallel Adaptive Finite Element Computations
L. Laemmer and U. Meissner |
265 |
| 7.6 |
Augmented Domain Decomposition Methods for Contact Problems in Elastoviscoplasticity
G. Alduncin |
273 |
| 7.7 |
Domain Decomposition Methods and Non-Linear Problems
Y. Escaig and P. Marin |
281 |
| 7.8 |
An Algorithm for Partitioning of Finite Element Meshes
A. Kaveh and G.R. Roosta |
289 |
| 7.9 |
Parallel Quadrilateral Mesh Generation
B.H.V. Topping and B. Cheng |
297 |
| 7.10 |
Parallel Quadrilateral Subdomain Generation
J. Sziveri, B. Cheng, A. Bahreininejad, J. Cai, G. Thierauf and B.H.V. Topping |
313 |
| 7.11 |
Parallel and Distributed Adaptive Tetrahedral Mesh Generation
J.K. Wilson and B.H.V. Topping |
327 |
| 8 | PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS |
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| 8.1 |
On the H1/2 Norm based Schur Complement Preconditioners
B. Kiss and A. Krebsz |
343 |
| 8.2 |
Comparisons of Partitioned Solution Procedures for Transient Coupled Problems in Sequential and Parallel Processing
R. Matteazzi, B. Schrefler and R. Vitaliani |
351 |
| 8.3 |
Parallel Inversion of Finite Element Matrices via a Direct Method
D.J. Grey and M.H.B.M. Shariff |
359 |
| 8.4 |
Distributed Solution of Coupled Nonlinear Buckling of Plate Girders
O. Roth, J. Sziveri and B.H.V. Topping |
365 |
| 8.5 |
Parallel Iterative Solvers for Finite Element Analysis
R. Valkenberg, G. Warzee, P. Saint-Georges, R. Beauwens and Y. Notay |
373 |
| 8.6 |
Parallel Transient Non-Linear Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Plates
J. Sziveri, B.H.V. Topping and P. Ivanyi |
383 |
| 8.7 |
A Parallel, Multi-Level Contact Search Algorithm in Crashworthiness Simulation
B. Elsner, H.G. Galbas, B. Gorg, O. Kolp and G. Lonsdale |
397 |
| 8.8 |
Speeding-Up MADYMO 3D on Serial and Parallel Computers using Portable Coding Environment
T. Tsiandikos, H.F.L. Rooijackers, F.G.J. van Asperen and H.A. Lupker |
403 |
| 8.9 |
Parallel Simulated Annealing Models for Structural Optimization
J.P. Leite and B.H.V. Topping |
411 |
