The advent of the digital computer has given great impetus to the development of modern discretization methods in structural mechanics. The young history of the

The JUT AMlIACM Symposium on Discretization Methods in Structural Mechanics was nd th held in Vienna, Austria, from 2 to 6 June 1997. The site of the Symposium

The advent of the digital computer has given great impetus to the development of modern discretization methods in structural mechanics. The young history of the

In recent years, the Finite Element Methods FEM were more and more employed in development and design departments as very fast working tools in order to determi

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