ADVANCES IN COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURAL MECHANICS UDC: 531:518.12
In this report some new advances in computational structural mechanics presented at the Fourth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology (here CST'98) August 18 to 20 1998 - Edinburgh, Scotland, are described. The conference was organized by Civil-Comp Press from Edinburgh. It convened about 150 selected scientist, researchers and professionals from computational mechanics, computer science and related areas to advance the state of the art in the developing of reliable and efficient computational structures technology procedures. 1. THE SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE This was a fourth time that the researches from all side of the world congregated to share ideas and solutions applicable to almost any kind of design. The conference was held in the wonderful surroundings of the Scotland's capital city of Edinburgh during the worldwide famous festivals times in August. The aim of the conference was to bring together researches in computational mechanics and software developers in the field of solid mechanics. The main goal of the conference was to present new advances in the reliable numerical simulation of real mechanical systems, with special emphasis on implementation and application. Further, attention was paid to fostering a common understanding of the nowadays needs and demands posed in front of the computational mechanics procedures, techniques and actions. The Conference proceedings are printed in a form of four books with a catalogue records available from the British Library. About 150 speakers and attendees provided a brief overview of recent advances in various topics. These are related to finite element procedures and techniques, civil and structural engineering computing for practice, engineering computational technology and computational structural mechanics. Attendees came (in alphabetical order) from Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Canada, Chech Republic, China, Croatia, Egypt,