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Preliminaries
1	DAMAGE DETECTION AND IDENTIFICATION AS AN INVERSE PROBLEM
1.1	Modal Damping as a Damage Detection Parameter in Reinforced Concrete Structures J.M. Ndambi, J. Vantomme and J. De Visscher	1
1.2	A High Performance Structure Identification Environment K.M. Bossley, M.C. Sell and N.K. Allsopp	9
2	CONTROL OF STRUCTURES AND SMART STRUCTURES
2.1	Robust Adaptive Control of Robots by Stochastic Optimization Methods K. Marti	15
2.2	Numerical Analysis and Testing of the ADAS Device for Seismic Response Control of Steel Structures M. Tehranizadeh	29
2.3	Vibration Damping of a Flexible Mechanism using an Energy Approach M.A. Karkoub and M. Zribi	41
2.4	Modelling of Smart Structures with Colocated Piezoelectric Actuator / Sensor Pairs: Influence of the In-plane Components V. Piefort and K. Henrioulle	47
2.5	A Study of Optimal Control for Free Surface Flow and Structure based on Finite Element Method H. Ogawa and M. Kawahara	59
2.6	Characterization Tests of New Aluminium and Steel Energy Dissipating Devices D. Foti and R. Nobile	65
3	STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION
3.1	Mixed Discrete and Integer Structural Optimization using Generalized Hopfield Network based Sequential Unconstrained Mimimization Technique with Additional Penalty Strategy C.J. Shih and Y.C. Yang	73
3.2	Quadratic Programming Solver for Large-Scale Structural Optimization using SQP Algorithm B. Horowitz and S.M.B. Afonso	79
3.3	Optimum Design of Structures with Discrete Variables using Approximation Concepts E. Salajegheh and J. Salajegheh	85
4	TOPOLOGICAL DESIGN OPTIMISATION
4.1	Topological Design Solutions for Structures under Transmissible Loads M.B. Fuchs and E. Moses	95
4.2	An Efficient Fully Stressed Approach for Topographical Design of Structures C-Y. Lin and L-S. Chao	101
4.3	Topological Operators to Improve Finite Element Analysis Geometry Adaptation L. Fine, L. Remondini and J-C. Leon	107
5	SHAPE OPTIMISATION
5.1	Shape Optimization to Minimize Stress Concentration in Shell Structures B. Wilczynski	119
5.2	A Shape Optimization Technique by Finite Element Simulation of Durelli's Method of Photoelastic Stress Minimization V. Nguyen and D. Tran	133
5.3	Shape Optimization for Structures from Quasi-Brittle Materials Subject to Cyclic Loads N. Banichuk, M.M. Mäkelä and P. Neittaanmäki	145
5.4	A Self-Designing Structural Method for Two-Dimensional Shape Optimal Design with Stress Constraints K.H. Lim and J.W. Bull	153
6	PARALLEL STRUCTURAL OPTIMISATION
6.1	An Efficient Parallel Global Optimization Infrastructure for Composite Structures J.F. Schutte, H.P.J. Bolton, C. Erasmus, S. Geyer and A.A. Groenwold	161

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