This report contains the lectures presented at the Seventh International Conference on Computational Structures Technology held in Lisbon, Portugal, September 7–9, 2004. The design of lightweight structures, wave propagation modeling, deformation of inelastic solids, and piezoelectric micro-scale resonators are among the topics discussed.
B. H. V. Topping is a professor of computational mechanics at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also the editor of Advances in Engineering Software and the International Journal of Computers & Structures. C. A. Mota Soares is a professor of solids and structural mechanics at the Technical University of Lisbon.