Civil And Structural Engineering Computing 2001

Includes invited lectures presented at The Eighth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing and The Sixth International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering held in Eisenstadt, Vienna, Austria between 19-21 September 2001.

Includes invited lectures presented at The Ninth International Conference on Civil and Structural Engineering Computing and The Seventh International Conference on the Application of Artificial Intelligence to Civil and Structural Engineering held in Egmond-aan-Zee, The Netherlands between 2-4 September 2003.

With contributions from renowned experts in their fields, this volume compiles the lectures presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing held in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece in September 2011. Backed up by state-of-the-art research, the various topics covered in these lectures include earthquake risk mitigation, railway dynamics analysis, constitutive modeling, ultimate bearing capacity, and fire loading.