Applications of Neural Networks in Modeling and Design of Structural Systems
There has been considerable recent activity in exploring biological motivated computational paradigms in problems of engineering analysis and design. Such computational models are placed in a broad category of soft-computing tools that span the gap betwee
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Series Editors: The Rectors of CISM Sandor Kaliszky - Budapest Mahir Sayir - Zurich Wilhelm Schneider - Wien The Secretary General of CISM Giovanni Bianchi - Milan Executive Editor Carlo Tasso - Udine
The series presents lecture notes, monographs, edited works and proceedings in the field of Mechanics, Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Purpose of the series is to make known in the international scientific and technical community results obtained in some of the activities organized by CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR MECHANICAL SCIENCES COURSES AND LECTURES - No. 404
NEURAL NETWORKS IN THE ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF STRUCTURES
EDITED BY ZENON WASZCZYSZYN CRACOW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
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This volume contains 128 illustrations
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ISBN 978-3-211-83322-3 ISBN 978-3-7091-2484-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-7091-2484-0
Professor Panadis D. Panagiotopoulos Member of CISM Scientific Council died untimely and suddenly on August 12, 1998. An outstanding scientist, enthusiastic organiser of scientific life, excellent teacher, warm and always friendly for his colleagues and associates in Greece and abroad was Prof. P.O. Panagiotpoulos a great personality of international range. Panadis Panagiotopoulos was born in Thessaloniki on January I, 1950. At the age of five years he was enrolled at the Experimental School of the Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. After his M.Sc. at the Department of Civil Engineering of the Aristotle University he joined his career with this University. After Ph.D Thesis defence in Thessaloniki in 1972 he spent five years at the RWTH Aachen as the Humboldt Research Fellow and then as Head of a research group at the Institute of Technical Mechanics. In 1977 he defended his habilitation at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of RWTH Aachen. Since this time he devoded his life and scientific activity between Thessaloniki and Aachen. In 1978 he was appointed Full Professor and Director of the Institute of Steel Structures at Department of Civil Engineering, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki. In 1981 he was nominated Honorary Professor of Mechanics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of RWTH Aachen.
The main fields of Prof. P.O. Panagiotopoulos's interests were nonsmooth mechanics, hemivariational inequalities, inequality problems in mechanics, optimization methods in
