Thirty-six contributions from the July 1998 Conference present an analysis of dynamic systems and fluid-structure interaction in reactor technology and fluid-structure interaction. Most of the papers reflect how advances in these fields of research, as a result of the development of high-performance computers and methods of experiment, lead to detailed results that could not have otherwise been obtained. Topics are divided into two sections--technologies in reactor safety and natural hazards engineering, and fluid-structure interaction and sloshing. Concludes with two student papers. Contains an author index but no subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Papers from an August 1999 conference examine areas including supersonic penetration of shaped charge jets into concrete, scaling blast-induced wall loadings in a rectangular room, a damage model for composites under dynamic loading, nonlinear analysis of EFB phenomena of cylindrical storage tanks d

An examination of creative systems in structural and construction engineering taken from conference proceedings. Topics covered range from construction methods, safety and quality to seismic response of structural elements and soils and pavement analysis.