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Preliminaries
1	PRE- AND POST-PROCESSING, MESH GENERATION, VISUALISATION AND MODEL REPRESENTATION
1.1	Feature Description Structures for Finite Element Modelling S. Chandra	1
1.2	Virtual Prototyping: A Tool for Structural Design and Performance Simulation D. Jonson	9
1.3	Mesh-Independent Visualisation of Hidden 3-D Process Data in Computer Simulation J.R. Boehmer	13
1.4	A Hybrid Method for Finite Element Nodal Ordering A. Kaveh and H.A. Rahimi Bondarabady	25
2	RE-ANALYSIS
2.1	On an Exact Calculation Method for Structural Modification M. Cheikh, A. Loredo, S. Aivazzadeh and G. Verchery	33
3	OBJECT ORIENTED FINITE ELEMENT METHODOLOGY
3.1	Object Oriented Finite Element Modelling B. Patzak and Z. Bittnar	41
3.2	Using an Extensible Object-Oriented Query Language in Multibody System Analysis C. Tisell and K. Orsborn	47
3.3	Object-Oriented Programming and Numerical Methods in Finite Element Analysis R.I. Mackie	55
3.4	Accessing Finite Element Analysis Results through an Extensible Object-Oriented Query Language K. Orsborn	63
4	PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING
4.1	Development of a Geometrical and Material Non Linear Analysis Software for Civil Engineering Structures with Clusters of Personal Computers M.L. Romero, J.J. Cano and P. Miguel	71
4.2	Explicit Parallel Dynamics with Nonlocal Constitutive Models B. Patzak, D. Rypl and Z. Bittnar	77
4.3	Transferring a Non-Linear Finite Element Code to the Oxford Supercomputer, OSCAR A.G. Bloodworth, C.E. Augarde and G.T. Houslby	85
4.4	Some Results Given by the Use of Multilevel Decomposition Methods to Solve Linear and Non Linear Problems J-F. Lassignardie and P. Marin	95
5	ANALYSIS, MODELLING AND DESIGN OF COMPOSITES
5.1	A Method for Optimally Designing Laminated Plates Subject to Fatigue Loads using a Cumulative Damage Constraint and Finite Element Analysis M. Walker	103
5.2	Analysis of Angle-Ply Piezolaminated Plate Structures by Spline Finite Strip Method M.A.R. Loja, J.I. Barbosa, C.M. Mota Soares and C.A. Mota Soares	107
5.3	The Vibration of Corrugated Carbon Fibre Cylinders under External Water Pressure A.P.F. Little and C.T.F. Ross	119
5.4	Effective Thermomechanical Behaviour for Particle Reinforced Composites K.K-H. Tseng	127
6	FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURES
6.1	Development and Simulation of a Real-Time Dynamic Testing Procedure for Structures M.S. Williams, A. Blakeborough, D. Clement, A.P. Darby, D.M. Williams and N. Woodward	133
6.2	Punching Shear Capacity of Internal Column-Flat Slab Junctions with Inplane Restraint: A Comparison Between Finite Element Predictions and Experiments P. Bhatt and B.T. Lim	141
6.3	Finite Element Analysis of Reinforced Concrete with Dowel Action of Steel Reinforcement Taken into Account A.K.H. Kwan and X.G. He	149
6.4	Finite Element Modeling of Structural Reinforced Concrete Grid Walls M.A. Haroun, C.V. Yland and H.M. Elsanadedy	155
6.5	Application of Finite Element Analysis in the Modification of Civil and Structural Works K. Nag	161
6.6	The Question of Shear in the Design of Pavement Structures A. Bensalem and A. Brown	173
7	NONLINEAR FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS
7.1	Nonlinear Finite Element Method for RC Shear Wall Structures P. Shen, J. Ye and S. Cai	181
7.2	Nonlinear Analysis of Experimental RC Shear Walls M.A. Shayanfar and R. Saleh Jalali	187
7.3	Non-Linear Finite Element Modelling of Concrete-Filled Steel Tube Columns S.P. Chiew, Y.X. Dong and C.K. Soh	197
8	CONSTITUTIVE MODELLING
8.1	Bifurcation in the Numerical Simulation of Softening Mechanisms O.J. Gastebled and I.M. May	205
8.2	The Assessment of Hysteretic Energy Capacity in Energy-based Damage Model Design A. Nicknam, A.Shahbazian Ahari and M.R. Sabeti	215
9	ANALYSIS OF SHELL STRUCTURES
9.1	Finite Rotations in Non-Linear Analysis and Design of Elastic Shells L. Wang and G. Thierauf	223
9.2	Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Shells R. Levy and E. Gal	233
10	DYNAMIC ANALYSIS
10.1	A Numerically Stable Subspace Iteration Method with Shift H.-J. Jung, J.-W. Oh and I.-W. Lee	241
11	CONTACT ANALYSIS
11.1	Boundary Element Analysis of Rigid Body Contact R.S. Hack and A.A. Becker	249
12	GEOTECHNICAL ANALYSIS
12.1	Advanced Finite Element Analysis of Surface Foundations on Granular Soils P.K. Woodward and K. Nesnas	255
12.2	Nonlinear Computational Model for Soil-Pile Interaction under Lateral Loading with Gap Formation M.A. Haroun and H.M. Nofal	261
12.3	Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analyses of Passive Pile Behaviour J.L. Pan, A.T.C. Goh, K.S. Wong and A.R. Selby	271
13	FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION
13.1	The Buckling and Vibration of Tube-Stiffened Axisymmetric Shells under External Hydrostatic Pressure C.T.F. Ross and J. Etheridge	277

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