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Preliminaries
1. Twenty Years of Civil and Structural Engineering Computing, B.H.V. Topping	1
2. Designing Buildings Against Abnormal Loading, D.E. Grierson	37
3. Structuring the Design Process from Phenomenological Models to FEA via Knowledge Engineering, S. Chandra and J. Dhayanidhi	63
4. A Unified Approach to Verify Stresses in Two-Dimensional Reinforced Concrete Membrane and Shell Structures, A. Samartín, P. Díaz-Domínguez and J. García-Palacios	85
5. Computational Models for the Low-Cycle Fatigue Behaviour of Composite Members and Joints, O.S. Bursi and F. Ferrario	119
6. Analysis of Geometrically Nonlinear Cable Structures, A.S.K. Kwan	149
7. Stochastic Optimization Methods in Plastic Analysis and Optimal Plastic Design, K. Marti	171
8. Optimal Choice of Performance Index Parameters for Control Design of Seismically Excited Structures, Y. Ribakov and G. Agranovich	191
9. A Review of Boundary Element Analysis of Contact Mechanics, A.A. Becker	209
10. Optimum Design of Skeletal Structures: A Review, M.P. Saka	237
11. Numerical Models in Soft Ground Tunnelling, C.E. Augarde	285
12. Soil-Structure Interaction for Moving Loads: Application to Railway Traffic, D. Le Houédec, G. Lefeuve Mesgouez and B. Picoux	315
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