Innovation in computational structures technology /

These lectures on structural engineering were first presented in 2006 at the Eighth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology. Focusing on mathematical calculations and the computer technology to run them, the lectures cover such topics as uncertainty modeling, estimates of seismic vulnerability, fracture behavior of quasi-brittle materials, nonlinear vibration modes of plates and shells, and measures of stability for pin-jointed structural assemblies.

B. H. V. Topping is a professor of computational mechanics at Heriot-Watt University–Edinburgh and at the University of Pecs–Hungary. He is the coeditor of International Journal of Computers and Structures and International Journal of Advances in Engineering Software. G. Montero and R. Montenegro are both professors at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria–Spain.