IACM/ECCOMAS Congress 2008

Thursday, July 3rd 14:00 - 16:00
Special Symposium in Honour of 75th Birthday of Professor S. Valliappan I
Minisymposium organized by Nasser Khalili and Scott Sloan

Room: EXC1.1
MS185A

14:00 Extending the Philosophy of Science to the Philosophy of Computational Engineering. The Falsification Role of Convergence Analysis
Eduardo Oliveira

14:20 A Priori Identification of the Mode of Conversion from an Imperfection-Sensitive into an Imperfection-Insensitive Elastic Structure
Gerhard Höfinger, Xin Jia and Herbert Mang

14:40 Advances in Solution of Classical Generalized Eigenvalue Problem
Ming Wu Yuan, Pu Chen, Shuli Sun, Qiancheng Zhao, Yucai Gong and Yongqiang Chen

15:00 Process Optimization using a Single Computational Simulation Environment
Grant Steven

15:20 Review on FEM, BEM, XFEM, Scaled Boundary Finite Elements and Fractal Finite Elements in Linear Fracture Mechanics
Andrew Y.T. Leung and Hao Yang

15:40 Enriched Free Mesh Method with Superconvergent Patch Recovery Scheme
Hitoshi Matsubara and Genki Yagawa

Thursday, July 3rd 16:30 - 18:30 Special Symposium in Honour of 75th Birthday of Professor S. Valliappan II Minisymposium organized by Nasser Khalili and Scott Sloan	Room: EXC1.1 MS185B
16:30 Parallel Computing of a Reproducing Kernel Particle Method with Closed Form Shape Functions Yao Zheng and Jifa Zhang 16:50 Level-Set Based Topological Optimization for Steady-State Navier-Stokes Flow Shiwei Zhou and Qing Li

Friday, July 4th 10:30 - 12:30
Special Symposium in Honour of 75th Birthday of Professor S. Valliappan III
Minisymposium organized by Nasser Khalili and Scott Sloan

Room: EXC1.1
MS185C

10:30 A Geometric Approach for Generalization of Constitutive Models for Geomaterials from 2D to 3D
Nasser Khalili and Martin Liu

10:50 Modelling Geo-Environmental Engineering Problems by Means of Porous Media Mechanics
Lorenzo Sanavia and Bernhard A. Schrefler

11:10 Numerical Implementation of a New Class of Variational Plasticity Models For Geomaterials
Kristian Krabbenhoft

11:30 Finite/Infinite Element Approach for Ground Vibrations Due to Underground Trains
Y. B. Yang and H.H. Hung

11:50 Modelling the Interface Conditions in Limit Analysis Applications
Andrei Lyamin, Kristian Krabbenhoft and Scott W. Sloan