Civil and Structural Engineering Computing: 2001

This volume includes lectures presented at the Eighth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering and Computing, and the Sixth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering, held in Eisenstadt, Vienna, Austria, September 2001. Topics discussed include: information technology; knowledge-based systems; object-oriented techniques; evolutionary computing and neural networks; parallel and distributed computing; optimization; analysis and design of structures; and geotechnical engineering.

Author Biography: B.H.V. Topping, professor of computational mechanics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, is the editor of International Journal of Computers & Structures and of Advances in Engineering Software. He is the author of Parallel Finite Element Computations and Neural Computing for Structural Mechanics.