Advances in Structural Engineering Mechanics, Volume One
The book presents research papers presented by academicians, researchers, and practicing structural engineers from India and abroad in the recently held Structural Engineering Convention (SEC) 2014 at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi during 22 – 24 De
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Advances in Structural Engineering Mechanics, Volume One
Advances in Structural Engineering
Vasant Matsagar Editor
Advances in Structural Engineering Mechanics, Volume One
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Editor Vasant Matsagar Department of Civil Engineering Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi New Delhi, Delhi India
ISBN 978-81-322-2189-0 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2190-6
ISBN 978-81-322-2190-6
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Foreword
I was in the United Kingdom at the University of Wales, Swansea, during the period 1979–1982 as a 1979 Nehru Scholar under the auspices of the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial (U.K.) Trust. An International Conference on Numerical Methods for Coupled Problems was organised there in the month of September 1981 to felicitate Prof. O.C. Zienkiewicz on his 60th birthday. Almost all the big names in the area of finite elements including Profs. R.W. Clough, J.H. Argyris, R.L. Taylor, R.H. Gallagher, J.T. Oden and T.J.R. Hughes in addition to many others were present at this meeting. An idea of formation of an International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) was mooted by Prof. Gallagher through circulation of a half-page write-up. I was struck by the simplicity of this whole operation. Their idea was to hold together all those involved in the theory and practice of finite element and other numerical methods under one umbrella. It took some time for them to organise the First International Conference on Computational Mechanics at the University of Texas, Austin, in 1987. I started thinking about such a group in our country. And the purest motive behind this was to strengthen good and credible research within the country. Research in engineering was a new phenomenon in the country. It started slowly
