Announcement and Call for Abstracts

               MINISYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL DYNAMICS

To be held at the Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics
Wednesday-Friday, August 4-6, 1999, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO, USA

Symposium Organizers: P. G. Bergan, S. Govindjee, R. L. Taylor and N.-E. Wiberg

This MiniSymposium will provide a forum for the presentation and discussion
of state-of-the-art methods in Computational Dynamics.
Papers on development of methods and algorithms as well as practical
applications are welcome.  The sessions will consist of both invited as
well as contributed papers.


Contributions are solicited in the following areas:

* Discretisation techniques in time and space-time
* Adaptivity, accuracy, and error estimation
* Adaptations of algorithms and methods
* Computer implementation
* Computational capabilities and efficiency
* Coupled transient system simulation
* Multiscale dynamics 
* Mathematical analysis of dynamical systems
* Important practical applications such as: Structural response to 
     environmental loads, Contact and collision, Dynamic 
     integrity of structures, Dynamics response of flexible and 
     multibody systems.


Submission Instructions:

If you are interested in contributing to this MiniSymposium, please
submit a one-page abstract
of up to 400 words to one of the four organizers
using the e-mail alias dynamics@gough.ce.berkeley.edu
on or before December 15, 1998.  Mail sent to this alias is
automatically forwarded to all four organizers and is the preferred mode
of communication.

Please submit abstracts in plain ASCII text format.

If the abstract is co-authored please identify the e-mail of the
corresponding author.  

Abstracts deemed to fit the scope and objectives of the Symposium will be
communicated to the Congress organizers by January 15, 1999, and
notification of acceptance will be given by e-mail to the corresponding
author.  Final versions of accepted abstracts for the book of Abstracts
will be due on or before May 15, 1999.  


MiniSymposium Organizer Addresses:

Professor Paal G. Bergan, Vice President        Professor Sanjay Govindjee
Det Norske Veritas                              Dept. Civil Engineering 
POB 300                                         University of California, Berkeley 
N-1322 Hovik, NORWAY                            Berkeley, CA 94720-1710, USA 
Tel:+47 67577555, Fax:+47 67578850              Tel: (510) 642-6060, Fax:(510) 643-8928 
Paal.Bergan@dnv.com                             sanjay@ce.berkeley.edu 


Prof.  Robert L. Taylor                         Prof. Nils-Erik Wiberg
Dept. Civil Engineering                         Dept. Structural Mechanics
University of California, Berkeley              Chalmers University of Technology
Berkeley, CA 94720-1710, USA                    S-412 96 Gothenburg, SWEDEN
Tel: (510) 642-3066, Fax: (510) 643-8928        Tel: +46 31-7721970, Fax: +46 31-7721976
rlt@ce.berkeley.edu                             NE.Wiberg@sm.chalmers.se

Congress Program and Registration Information:

Posted at: http://civil.colorado.edu/usnccm99