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Preliminaries
1	DESIGN AND CONCURRENT ENGINEERING
1.1	A Process-Based Approach to Change Notification in a System to Support Concurrent Engineering W. Ivins, W.A. Gray and J.C. Miles	1
1.2	Versioning Support for Design Reuse W. Ivins, J.C. Miles and W.A. Gray	9
2	ETHERNET TECHNOLOGY
2.1	To What Degree Will Ethernet Penetrate the World of Real-Time Distributed Process Control? L. Lo Bello and O. Mirabella	17
3	VIRTUAL REALITY AND VISUALISATION
3.1	A Framework for the Interactive Investigation of Finite Element Simulations in Virtual Environments M. Connell and O. Tullberg	23
3.2	Structural Dynamics of Rail Vehicle Systems: A Virtual Systems Approach A. Stribersky, F. Moser and W. Rulka	29
3.3	Bottom-Up Virtual Reality Modelling of a Two-Dimensional Truss L. Jankovic, S. Jankovic, A.H.C. Chan and G.H. Little	37
3.4	Automation of 2D and 3D Bridge Deck Representations based on a Geometric Database A.A. Sampaio	43
4	ROBOTICS
4.1	A Symbolic Computational Method for a Dynamic Model of Robot Manipulators S.E. Zaharia and V. Filip	51
5	SOLID AND GEOMETRIC MODELLING
5.1	Dimensional Addition of Beam Models A.G. Casement, C.G. Armstrong, D. Milne and D. Robinson	57
5.2	Preprocessing of Degenerate Slices in Layered Manufacturing M. Muller, I. Stroud and P.C. Xirouchakis	63
5.3	Container Spaces and Functional Features for Top-Down 3D Layout Design A. Csabai, I. Stroud and P.C. Xirouchakis	69
5.4	Medial Geometry Refinement D.J. Robinson, C.G. Armstrong, C.A. McGleenan and N. O'Gorman	77
5.5	Characteristic Edge Extraction on a Digitized Part A. Meyer and P. Marin	85
6	SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
6.1	Research Oriented Software Development Platform for Structural Mechanics: A Solution for Distributed Computing P. Lorong, F. Ali and G. Coffignal	93
6.2	Characteristics of Fast and Accurate FEM Software with Smooth Accessibility from Design Processes D. Weinberg and E. Spreeuw	101
7	OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING
7.1	Finite Element Developments, Visual Modelling and the UML: Some Initial Considerations G.F. Moita, H.E. Borges, E.H.R. Coppoli and F. Camargo	109
7.2	Scope, a Framework of Objects to Develop Structural Analysis Programs in C++ K. Reimann, L. Gil, M. Jentsch and M. Sanchez	117
7.3	Using Objects to Handle Calculation Control in Finite Element Analysis R.I. Mackie	123
7.4	Analysis of Immiscible Fluids Flows in Soils with Atena FE Modelling System L. Jendele	131
7.5	Object-Oriented Fortran 90 p-Adaptive Finite Element Method M. Singh and J.E. Akin	141
7.6	SW: A Toolkit for Object Oriented Structural Modeling P.A. Pagliosa and J.B. de Paiva	151
7.7	Object-Oriented Nonlinear Finite Element Programming: A Primer S. Commend and T. Zimmermann	167
7.8	Object Oriented Programming Applied to the Domain Decomposition Methods with Load Balancing for the Numerical Simulation Forging Processes P. Paquier and J.C. Gelin	173
8	STATIC AND DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING
8.1	Domain Decomposition of Composite Laminated Plates J. Kruis and K. Matous	183
8.2	A Multilevel Approach for Obtaining Locally Optimal Finite Element Meshes P.K. Jimack and R. Mahmood	191
8.3	Dynamic Load Balancing for Parallel Structural Mechanics Simulations with Drama J. Fingberg, A. Basermann, G. Lonsdale, J. Clinckemaillie, J.-M. Gratien and R. Ducloux	199
9	PARALLEL SOLVERS
9.1	Using Heterogeneous Clusters of PCs for Parallel Computing Z. Bittnar, J. Kruis, J. Nemecek, B. Patzak and D. Rypl	207
9.2	Advantages of Parallel Algorithms in Structural Mechanics J. Kruis and Z. Bittnar	219
9.3	Parallel Approach by Task Distributions using Two Domain Decompositions Suited to Non-Linear Simulations J-Y. Cognard, A. Poulhalec, F. Thomas and P. Verpeaux	229
9.4	An OpenMP Approach to Parallel Solvers in PZFlex R. Baxter, M. Bowers, P. Graham, G. Wojcik, D. Vaughan and J. Mould	241
9.5	Parallel Iterative Scheme for Solving BEM Systems using Fast Wavelet Transforms P. Gonzalez, J.C. Cabaleiro and T.F. Pena	249
9.6	An Efficient Parallel Direct Solver for Finite Element Applications E. Anderheggen	259
9.7	A Parallel Finite Element Program on a Beowulf Cluster V. Sonzogni, A. Yommi, N. Nigro and M. Storti	265
10	PARALLEL COMPUTATIONS
10.1	Simulations of Solid Rocket Motors using a Partitioned Fluid-Structure Interaction Algorithm I.D. Parsons, P. Alavilli, A. Namazifard, X. Jiao and A. Acharya	277
10.2	A Parallel Environment for Three-Dimensional Finite Element Analysis C.O. Moretti, J.B. Cavalcante Neto, T.N. Bittencourt and L.F. Martha	283
10.3	Scalable Performance for the Parallel Vibro Acoustic Analysis of Loudspeakers using Desktop PCs N.K. Allsopp, P.C. Macey and K. Takeda	289
10.4	Parallel Proximal-Point Algorithms for the Elastoplastic Two-Body Contact Problem G. Alduncin and J. Sanchez-Macias	295
10.5	Parallel Krylov Methods for the Resolution of Nonlinear Structural Problems M.L. Romero, J.I. Aliaga and P. Museros	303

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