This book contains the extended abstracts of the contributed papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology, held in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 12-15 September, 2006. The full length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM.
The topics covered include: Mesh Generation & Adaption; Polymer Processing; Orthogonal Functions; Cellular Automata; Evolutionary Methods; GAs & Neural Networks; Construction Management; Numerical Linear Algebra; Environmental Engineering; Contact, Forming & Rolling; Software Development; KBS & CBR; Computer Aided Design; Image Processing & Analysis; Parallel & Distributed Computing; Traffic & Environmental Engineering; Geotechnical Engineering; SSI & FSI; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Nanotechnology; Biomechanics; Crash Simulation; Stochastic Simulation; Meshfree Methods; Fuzzy Methods; Iterative Methods; Design Sensitivity & Optimization; Fractional Differential Equations.
Barry Topping is Professor of Computational Mechanics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. He is also editor of the International Journal of Computers & Structures and editor of Advances in Engineering Software. Gustavo Montero Garcia is Professor at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering (IUSIANI) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. Rafael Montenegro Armas is Professor at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Numerical Applications in Engineering (IUSIANI) at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
