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APCOM'07-EPMESC XI
Third Asian-Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics in conjunction with
Eleventh International Conference on the Enhancement and Promotion of Computational Methods in Engineering and Science

Session PL4  Plenary Lectures
Time: 8:15 - 10:15 Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Location: 1F Annex 1
Chairs: Herbert Mang (Vienna Univ. of Tech., Austria), David Roger Jones Owen (Swansea Univ., United Kingdom), Wing Kam Liu (Northwestern Univ., USA)

PL4-1 (Time: 8:15 - 8:55)
TitleFrom the Mechanics of Generalized Continua to Hybrid and Block Element System Models
Author*Eduardo Romano de Arantes e Oliveira (Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal)

PL4-2 (Time: 8:55 - 9:35)
TitleDevelopments in Robust and Reliability-based Design Optimization of Structural and Mechanical Systems
Author*Byung Man Kwak (KAIST, Korea)

PL4-3 (Time: 9:35 - 10:15)
TitleMetamodel Techniques for Solving Seismic Probabilistic-Based Design Optimization Problems
Author*Manolis Papadrakakis, Nikos D. Lagaros, Anargyri Th. Garavela (National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)