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Preliminaries
1	STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
1.1	Topological Transformations Applied to Structural Mechanics A. Kaveh	1
1.2	The Analysis of Large Non-Uniform Spatial Shear Wall Systems by a Discrete Force Method D. Johnson and A. Nadjai	11
1.3	A Comparative Study of the Combinatorial and Algebraic Force Methods A. Kaveh and A. Mokhtar-zadeh	21
1.4	The Analysis and Design of Framed Structures using Unimodal Components M.B. Fuchs	31
1.5	Conditioning of Structural Stiffness Matrices A. Kaveh and I. Ghaderi	39
2	ANALYSIS OF BEAM-COLUMN STRUCTURES
2.1	The Method of Segment Length for Direct Instability Analysis of R/C Columns S.E.E. El-Metwally	47
3	FINITE ELEMENT MESH GENERATION
3.1	A Review of Mesh Generation Methods C.J.M. Hewett and J.W. Bull	55
3.2	Three Dimensional Adaptive Surface Re-Meshing for Large Displacement Finite Element Analysis A.I. Khan and B.H.V. Topping	63
4	FINITE ELEMENTS: FORMULATION AND SOLUTION
4.1	On the Implementation of a Mixed Finite Element Formulation based on Digital Interpolation L.M. Santos Castro and J.A. Teixeira de Freitas	71
4.2	A Discrete Error Estimators for Finite Element Analysis R. Targowski, G. Guerlement and D. Lamblin	81
4.3	Finite Element Analysis of Air Flow in Grain Bins Y. Feng and Y. Hua	91
4.4	Alternative Approach for Hybrid Stress Elements with Incompatible Displacements Y.F. Dong and J.A. Teixeira de Freitas	99
4.5	Stress Analysis of Stiffened Shells with Integrally Stiffened Semiloof Shell Finite Elements G. Caveney	107
4.6	Hierarchical 2-D Equilibrium Finite Elements based on Chebyshev Interpolation Functions J.A. Teixeira de Freitas	115
4.7	Fourth Order Runge-Kutta Method in 1D for High Gradient Problems R. Cortell	121
5	THIN WALLED STRUCTURES
5.1	A Cubic Eulerian Formulation for Elastic Warping Structures B.A. Izzuddin and D. Lloyd Smith	125
5.2	Shear Lag Revisited: The Use of Single Fourier Series for Determining the Effective Breadth in Plated Structures N. Tahan, M.N. Pavlovic and M.D. Kotsovos	133
5.3	A Computer Program for Calculating Longitudinal and Shear Strains in Open Thin-Walled Concrete Structures S.A. El-Hammasi	143
6	ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF PLATES
6.1	Diametrally Stiffened Circular Plates - An Elastic Large Deflection Analysis G.J. Turvey and M. Salehi	151
6.2	Elastic Response of Moderately Thick Sector Plates M. Salehi and A.G. Shahidi	159
6.3	Optimal Design of Plates for Shear Buckling R. Levy and V. Sokolinsky	171
6.4	Nonlinear First Yield Analysis of Circular Plates Subjected to Combined Uniform Pressure and Edge Compression G.J. Turvey and H. Drinali	181
7	NON-LINEAR STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS
7.1	Discussion of Four General Approaches to Path Following in Nonlinear Statics T. Bulenda	185
7.2	Behaviour of Simply Supported Deep Beams Designed using Non-Eleastic Stress Fields P. Bhatt and A. Bensalem	191
8	STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION AND SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS
8.1	Sensitivity Analysis of Structures: A Review D. Novák, B. Teplý and N. Shiraishi	201
8.2	Optimisation of Yield Line Patterns A. Jennings, A. Thavalingam, J.J. McKeown and D. Sloan	209
8.3	A Two-Stage Design Optimization of Shell Structures B. Stok and A. Mihelic	215
9	EIGENVALUE AND DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
9.1	Dynamic Response of Large Complex Segmentally Periodic Structures by the Symplectic Matrix Method M. Zhou and F.W. Williams	219
9.2	A Fast Iterative Algorithm for Eigenvalue Determination R.P. West and M.N. Pavlovic	229
9.3	Free Vibrations of Timoshenko Beams with Variable Cross Sections: A Lagrangian Approach N.M. Auciello	237
9.4	Group-Theory Considerations of Finite-Difference Plate Eigenvalue Problems A. Zingoni, M.N. Pavlovic, D. Lloyd Smith and G.M. Zlokovic	243
9.5	A Discrete Element Model for Beams Carrying a Moving Mass M. Mofid and J.E. Akin	257
10	SUBSTRUCTURING
10.1	Application of Substructuring in Space Trusses using Pyramidal Structural Units A.I. El-Sheikh and A.S.K. Kwan	263
10.2	Substructuring and Parallel Analysis of Thin Walled-Box Girders A. Faftis and A.Y. Rong	279
11	MATERIALS MODELLING
11.1	Analysis of Crack Propagation Path in Two-Dimensional Bodies using the Finite Element Method A.A. Aaghaakouchak and J.V. Amiri	285
11.2	Failure Prediction of Inhomogeneous Orthotropic Material P.P. Papados	291

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