Computational Methods in Engineering & Science: Proceedings of Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science X -- Aug. 21-23, 2006 Sanya, China

Plenary Lectures.- Management of Water Pollutants Based on Multi-Criteria Analysis and Fuzzy Logics.- Enriched Element Method and Its Applications to Solid Mechanics.- Large-Scale Boundary Element Analysis in Solid Mechanics Using Fast Multipole Method.- Semi-plenary Lectures.- Optimization and Robustness of Deformable Systems with Randomness.- Simulation of Stochastic Fluctuating Wind Field Using the Wave Superposition Method with Random Frequencies.- Monotonic and Cyclic Analysis of Granular Soils.- Adaptive Meshfree Methods Using Local Nodes and Radial Basis Functions.- Multiresolution Mechanics for Material Design and Manufacturing.- Application of Computational Mechanics to Reliability Studies of Electronic Packaging.- Topology Optimization of Structures: Applications in the Simulation and Design of Cellular Materials.- Rigid Body Considerations for Geometric Nonlinear Analysis of Structures Based on the Updated Lagrangian Formulation.- Nano-Modeling Structure and Micromechanical Properties of Mesoscopic Composite Systems.- An Extremely Efficient Finite-Element Model Updating Methodology with Applications to Damage Detection.- Dynamic Infinite Elements for Soil-Structure Interaction Analysis in a Layered Soil Medium.- Abstracts of Regular Sessions.- Numerical Simulation of Cavitation Generation in Tandem Cascades.- Numerical Simulation of Atrium Fire using Two CFD Tools.- Investigation of the Particulate Matters with the Aid of CFD.- CFD Analysis of Fire in a Forced Ventilated Enclosure.- Development of the Diffusion Control System using Air Shutter.- A High Order Compact Difference Scheme for Solving the Unsteady Convection-Diffusion Equation.- Computation of One-Dimensional Dam-Break Flow Using ENO Scheme.- Numerical Simulation of 2D Flood Waves Using TVD Scheme.- Motion Analysis of the Elevating Ball by the Effect of Buoyant Force.- Development of an Educational Flow Simulation System.- Using Finite Element Program Generator to Solve N-S Equation.- Experimental and CFD Study of the Effects of Design Parameters on Reynolds Number in a Short Duration Hypersonic Test Facility.- Investigation of Multiphase Flows near Walls with Textures by the Lattice Boltzmann Method.- Numerical Simulation of the Microstructure of Magnetorheological Fluids in Magnetic Fields.- Implementation of a 3D Multilaminated Hydromechanical Model for Analysis of an Unlined High Pressure Tunnel.- Prediction of Mixing and Reacting Flow Inside a Combustor.- Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Reactive Flow.- Computational Modeling of Coal Water Slurry Combustion Processes in Industrial Heating Boiler.- Large Eddy Simulation of Unsteady Turbulent Flow and Pressure Fluctuation in an Axial-Flow Pump with Various SGS Models.- Computation of Turbulent Flows in Natural Gas Pipes with Different Rectifiers.- Computation of Unsteady Incompressible Turbulent Flow by Using an Implicit SMAC Method.- Simulation on Vortex Effect for Superconducing Devices.- Simulation of Corrosion Rate of Carbon Steel Subjected to Elastic/Plastic Strain.- Effect of Surface Traction on the Shakedown Limit under Moving Surface Loads.- Elasto - Plastic Finite Element Analysis of Tapered Steel Silo.- Numerical Simulation of Failure Process in Heterogeneous Elastoplastic Materials.- Fatigue Damage Analysis of Reactor Vessel Model Under Repeated Thermal Loading.- Interaction of Moving Interfacial Cracks between Bonded Dissimilar Elastic Strips under Antiplane Shear.- Stress Intensity Factor of a Wide Range of Semi-Elliptical Partly Through-Wall Crack in a Finite-Thickness Plate.- Numerical Simulation of the Fracture Spacing in Two-Layered Material Subjected to Thermal and Mechanical Loading.- VCCM Rule-Based Meshing Algorithm for an Automatic 3D Analysis of Crack Propagation of Mixed Mode.- The State-of-the-Art Methodology to Compute the 3-D Stress Intensity Factors for Arbitrary Shaped Cracks in Complex Shaped Structures.- 3D Crack Propagation Analysis Using Free Mesh Method.- Finite Element Method for Analyzing Stress Intensity Factor of a Surface Crack in Tubular Joints.- The Solutions of Stress and Displacement Fields of Orthogonal Anisotropic Plate with Edge-Cracks.- Nonlinear FE Model for RC Shear Walls Based on Multi-Layer Shell Element and Micro-Plane Constitutive Model.- Numerical Modelling and Simulation of an Internal Combustion Engine Piston with a Surface Coating.- Reliability analysis using saddlepoint approximation.- Advanced Computational Method for Reliability Analysis of Concrete-Faced Rockfill Dam.- Structural Dynamic Reliability of Solid Rocket Motor Grains.- Wave Propagation in Orthotropic Elastic Shells: Theoretical and Numerical Modeling.- Study on the Criterion of In-plane Instability of Non-reinforced U-shaped Bellows.- Coupled Thermal-Dynamic Stability Analysis of Large-Scale Space Structures by FEM.- Numerical Modelling of the Lateral-Torsional Buckling of Stainless Steel I-Beams: Comparison with Eurocode 3.- Research on Simulation Analysis for Stability Problem of Pressure-Penstock with Imperfection.- Nonlinear Finite Element Buckling Analysis of Square Reinforced Concrete long Columns Confined with Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) Sheets under Uniaxial Compression.- A Kind of Channel-Section Beam Element for Transient Coupled Thermal-Structural Dynamic Analysis.- Semi-Analytical Analysis of Super Tall Building Bundled-Tube Structures.- Computational Design of Beam Sections under Impact Loading.- Pretension Control of the Long-span Roof Structure of South Shanghai Railway Station.- Damage Detection and Sensor Placement Design for Two Highway Bridges.- A new iterative method for solution of rectangular elastic structure.- Overall Stability of the Long Span Steel Roof Structure of Hangzhou International Conference Center.- Regionwise Modeling Approach for the Analysis of Layered Structures.- Computational and Experimental Study of Energy Absorption Metter by Composite Structures.- The Dynamic Analysis of Main Building of Hangzhou International Conference Center.- Second-Order Analysis for Steel Frame Structures with a Distributed Plasticity Numerical Model.- Pretension Simulation of the Long Span Truss String Supported by the Temporary Structures.- Accurate Form-Finding Method for Cable-Dome Structues Based on Catenary Element.- Higher Order Modes in Thin-Walled Beam Analysis.- Research on Rigidity Limits of Bridge with Conventional Spans for Chinese High-speed Railway.- Numerical Implementation and Calibration of a Hysteretic Model for Cyclic Response of End-Plate Beam-to-Column Steel Joints under Arbitrary Cyclic Loading.- Finite Element Analysis of Singular Inplane Stress Field around an Inclusion’s Corner Tip.- Finite Element Analysis for the Metallic Gasket Effective Width.- Finite Element Analysis of Electrochemical-Poroelastic Behaviors of Conducting Polymer (PPy) Films.- Finite Element Analyses of Multi-Material Wedges and Junctions with Singular Antiplane Stress Field.- Plane Strain Finite Element Analysis of a Piled Bridge Abutment on Soft Ground.- Finite Element Analysis of a Coal Liquefaction Reactor during Lifting.- Finite Element Anaylsis of Welded Cruciform Joint.- Static and Dynamic Testing of the SATUOeiras Viaducts.- Finite Element Approach to Resin Flow during the Resin Film Infusion Process.- Numerical Simulation of a New Complex FRP Pipe Culvert by FEA.- Numerical Study of Two-Dimensional Transient Heat Conduction Using Finite Element Method.- Chemical Reaction, Heat and Mass Transfer on Nonlinear MHD Boundary Layer Flow through a Vertical Porous Surface with Thermal Stratification in the Presence of Suction.- Development of a Mathematical Model for Heat and Mass Transfer Inside a Granular Medium.- Factor Analysis for Convective Heat Transfer Problem by Using the ANN Method.- Thermally Induced Mechanical Changes around a Potential Nuclear Waste Repository in China.- Research on Thermo Quality Transmission Problems for Large-Scale Slab with Creep.- Current Developments on the Coupled Thermomechanical Computational Modeling of Metal Casting Processes.- Application of the Mushy Cell Tracking Method for Gallium Melting.- New FDM for Plane Elasticity in Polar Coordinate.- Computational Strategies for Curved-side Elements Formulated by Quadrilateral Area Coordinates (QAC).- Studies of 4-node Membrane Element with Analytical Stiffness-Matrix Based on the Quadrilateral Area Coordinates.- Special Hybrid Multilayer Finite Elements for 3-D Stress Analyses Around Quasi-Elliptic Hole in Laminated Composites.- A 3-Dimensional Assumed Stress Hybrid Element with Drilling Degrees of Freedom.- Suppression of Zero-Energy Modes in Hybrid Finite Elements via Assumed Stress Fields.- Analysis of Concentrated Boundary Loads in the Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method.- A Frequency-Domain Approach for Transient Dynamic Analysis Using Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (I): Approach and Validation.- A Frequency-Domain Approach for Transient Dynamic Analysis Using Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (II): Application to Fracture Problems.- Inverse Problems.- A Novel Fuzzyexpert Diagnosis System of Inner-Faults for Three-Phase Squirrel Cage Induction Motors.- Updating Noise Parameters of Kalman Filter Using Bayesian Approach.- Damage Detection of Vibrating Structure from Limited Natural Frequencies.- Meshless Methods.- Error Estimations in LBIEM and Other Meshless Methods.- Parallel Computing for Enriched Free Mesh Method (EFMM).- 3D Animation for Free Mesh Method.- A Stabilized Conforming Integartion Procedure for Galerkin Meshfree Analysis of Thin Beam and Plate.- Element-Free Galerkin method with wavelet basis.- Micromechanics and Intelligent Materials.- The Numerical Prediction of Effective Properties of Non-Continuous Carbon Nano-Reinforced Composites by the Macro-Microscopic Homogenization Method.- Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Length Size Effect on Mechanical Properties of Nano-Metal.- Molecular Dynamic Simulations of CNT-Water Nanostructures.- Computer Simulation of Quantum Dot Surface under Stress.- 3D BEM for Piezoelectric Solids of General Anisotropy.- Analysis of Quantum Dots Induced Strain and Electric-Field in Piezoelectric Semiconductor Substrate of General...