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Preliminaries
1	COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
1.1	Efficient and Locking Free Anisotropic Plate and Shell Triangular Elements J. Argyris and L. Tenek	1
2	BUCKLING AND STABILITY ANALYSIS
2.1	Computational Structural Stability W.B. Krätzig	21
2.2	Buckling Characteristics of Single Layer Latticed Domes under Equipment Loading H.M. Jung, Y.H. Kwon and M. Yamada	33
2.3	Location of Bifurcation Points and Branching Analysis in Generalized Coordinates K.A. Lazopoulos	41
2.4	Finite Element Analysis of Tube Stability in Deep Water J.L. Tassoulas, S.A. Karamanos, A.C. Nogueira and G. Mansour	45
2.5	Nonlinear Interactive Buckling Solved by FEM O. Roth and J. Ravinger	61
2.6	Computing and Experimenting in Buckling C.M. Menken, G. Schreppers, W.J. Groot and R. Petterson	69
3	DYNAMIC STABILITY ANALYSIS
3.1	Qualitative Criteria in Nonlinear Dynamic Buckling and Stability of Autonomous Dissipative Systems A.N. Kounadis	77
3.2	On Kinematic Instability Phenomena of Elasto-Plastic Shell Structures P. Nawrotzki, W.B. Krätzig and U. Montag	83
3.3	Damping Influence of Simple Shell-Like Shallow Models to Dynamic Buckling S-D. Kim, M.M. Kang, T.J. Kwun and Y. Hangai	99
4	APPLICATION OF GROUP THEORY
4.1	Symmetry and the Direct Stiffness Method in Structural Analysis: A Formulation based on Group Theory A. Zingoni, M.N. Pavlovic and G.M. Zlokovic	107
5	OPTIMIZATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS
5.1	Superposition in Stress - Unilateral Cable Structures C.D. Bisbos	117
5.2	A New Method for the Numerical Treatment of Hemivariational Inequalities E.S. Mistakidis and P.D. Panagiotopoulos	123
5.3	Corrective Stress Distribution in Above-Ground Pipelines Due to the Presence of Friction on the Saddle Interfaces C.C. Baniotopoulos and P.D. Panagiotopoulos	131
6	DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
6.1	Dynamic Stiffness Analysis in Free Vibration of Toroidal Shell A.Y.T. Leung and N.T.C. Kwok	139
6.2	Space Flight Dynamic Simulations using Finite Element Results in Multibody System Codes O. Wallrapp and D. Sachau	149
6.3	Rayleigh-Ritz Analysis of Generally Orthotropic Composite Plates on Winkler Foundations P. Venini and C. Mariani	159
6.4	Vibration and Stability Modes of Long Flexible Structures E.M. Daya and M. Potier-Ferry	171
6.5	The Use of Multibody Dynamics in the Simulation of Structural Responses to Earthquakes D. Neuenhaus and G. Sedlacek	179
6.6	Incompatible Three-Dimensional Dynamic Finite Element Method G.J. He and D.P. Chen	185
6.7	On Lagrangian Approach to the Dynamics of Superimposed Blockstructures A. Ercolano	191
6.8	Modal Analysis of Structures by High-Order Multivariate Autoregressive Model X. He and G. De Roeck	199
7	DYNAMIC SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS AND RE-ANALYSIS
7.1	Numerical Methods for Dynamic Re-Analysis of Structures with Localized Modifications K.H. Law, C.M.M. Carey, D.R. Mackay and G.H. Golub	207
7.2	Sensitivity Analysis of Steady-State Response of Parametric Systems Z. Wojcicki	215
8	EIGENSOLVERS
8.1	Gradient Eigenanalysis on Nested Finite Elements L. Bergamaschi, G. Gambolati, G. Pini and M. Putti	225
8.2	Vibration of Antisymmetric Laminated Plates using Eigensensitivity Analysis O. Barton and R. Reiss	239
8.3	Implementation and Performance of Arnoldi and Lanczos Eigensolvers in Galerkin-Finite Element Computations D. Papadopoulos, C. Siettos, A.G. Boudouvis and A.T. Chronopoulos	253
9	BOUNDARY ELEMENT METHODS
9.1	Boundary Element Analysis of Transient Thermal Stresses in Viscoelastic Materials S.S. Lee, Y.S. Sohn and S.H. Park	263
9.2	Solving the Elastostatic Problem by the Analog Equation Method J.T. Katsikadelis and C.B. Kandilas	269
9.3	Numerical Analysis of Plate-Soil Interaction J. Batista de Paiva and R. Butterfield	275
9.4	Dynamic Analysis of Generalized Viscoelastic Systems with the Boundary Element Method N. Makris, G.F. Dargush and M.C. Constantinou	283
9.5	Adaptive Discretisation for the Boundary Integral Equation Method in Elasticity and Elastoplasticity E. Astrinidis and R.T. Fenner	291
9.6	Fatigue Crack Growth Studies using Dual Boundary Element Method H. Nguyen-Dang and A.M. Yan	301
9.7	Limiting Procedures and Calculation of Boundary Stresses in Three Dimensional Boundary Element Method C. Fiedler and L. Gaul	311
9.8	The BEM on Stress Concentration Reduction in Viscoplastic Plates C.P. Providakis and D.A. Sotiropoulos	323
9.9	Shear Stress Concentration in Hollow Pins D.W. Begg, A.J. Gumienny, M.A. Devane and D.N. Gratton	329
9.10	Transient Response Analysis of Elasto-Plastic Plates in Bending by Boundary Elements C.P. Providakis and D.E. Beskos	335
10	FINITE DIFFERENCE METHODS
10.1	Accuracy Increase of Finite Difference Calculations by Means of Differentiation of the Partial Differential Equations and the Boundary Conditions M. Arad, R. Segev and G. Ben-Dor	343
11	STOCHASTIC PROCESSES AND MECHANICS
11.1	Digital Simulation of Random Fields for Structural Applications E. Bielewicz, J. Górski and H. Walukiewicz	353
11.2	On Some Stochastic Eigenvalue Problems for Technical Applications H. Grundmann, F. Duddeck and H. Waubke	361
11.3	An Alternative Approach for Time Dependent Structural System Reliability C.Q. Li	369

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