FINITE ELEMENTS IN ANALYSIS AND DESIGN

An International Journal for Innovations in Computational

Methodology and Application

Co-Editors-in-Chief
Tod A Laursen, Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research (KUSTAR), PO Box 127788, Abu Dhabi,
United Arab Emirates. Tel: +1 919 660 5430, E-mail: tod.laursen@kustar.ac.ae
John E. (J.E.) Dolbow, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University, 121 Hudson Hall, Durham,
NC 27708-0287, USA. Tel: +1 919 660 5202, E-mail: jdolbow@duke.edu

Editorial Board H.A. Mang, Technische Universität Wien, Austria

W. Aquino, Duke University
F. Armero, Berkeley CA, USA
K.J. Bathe, MIT, Cambridge MA, USA
M. Bischoff, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
M. Cerrolaza, Central University of Venezuela,
  Caracas, Venezuela
C.A. Felippa, University of Colorado, Boulder CO, USA
J.A.T. Freitas, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa,
  Portugal
R. Grandhi, Wright State University, Dayton OH, USA
I. Harari, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Israel
G. Hofstetter, Universität Innsbruck, Austria
G.M. Hulbert, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI,
  USA
A. Ibrahimbegovic, Ecole Normale Superieure
  de Cachan, France
A.R. Khoei, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
F. Kikuchi, University of Tokyo, Japan
J.-H. Kim, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
S.H. Lo, The University of Hong Kong, China
S.A. Meguid, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
H.S. Park, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts,
   USA
M. Puso, University of California, Livermore, CA, USA
T. Rabczuk, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar,
  Germany
E. Ramm, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
J.N. Reddy, Texas A&M University, College Station TX, USA
H. Schaeffer, The Macneal Group, Pasadena CA, USA
G.P. Steven, Strand 7, Sydney, NSW, Australia
N. Sukumar, University of California at Davis,
  Davis, CA, USA
K.Y. Sze, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
K.K. Tamma, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
  MN, USA
Founding Editor
W.D. Pilkey, University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA,
   USA