Advances and Trends in Structural and Solid Mechanics, Papers Presented at the Symposium

This issue contains papers presented at the Symposium on Advances and Trends in Structural and Solid Mechanics held Oct. 4-7, 1982, in Washington, D.C. The symposium was sponsored by the George Washington Univ. and NASA Langley Research Center in cooperation with the National Science Foundation, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Office of Naval Research, the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The 59 papers contained in this volume are grouped under the following headings: (1) Mechanics of Materials and Material Characterization; (2) Advances and Trends in Finite Element Technology; (3) Classical Analytical Techniques and Their Computer Implementation; (4) Interactive Computing and Computational Strategies for Nonlinear Problems; (5) Advances and Trends in Numerical Analysis; (6) Design-Oriented Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Optimization; (7) Database Management Systems and CAD/CAM; (8) Space Structures and Vehicle Crashworthiness; (9) Beams, Plates and Fibrous Composite Structures; (10) Contact Problems, Random Waves and Lifetime Prediction; and (11) Earthquake Resistant Structures and Other Advanced Structural Applications. Of the 59 papers, 23 are abstracted.