Civil and Structural Engineering Computational Technology (Computational Science, Engineering & Tec)

With contributions from renowned experts in their fields, this volume compiles the lectures presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing held in Chania on the island of Crete, Greece in September 2011. Backed up by state-of-the-art research, the various topics covered in these lectures include earthquake risk mitigation, railway dynamics analysis, constitutive modeling, ultimate bearing capacity, and fire loading.