Soil dynamics and earthquake engineering

O keep readers up-to-date w i t h what's happening in other publications by Computational Mechanics, we follow here w i t h a list of some recent papers published in our group of international journals. All our journals are published quarterly and subscription enquiries should be sent to the appropriate address on the f r o n t page of this issue. T seismic response of tall chimneys J. E. Luco • Analysis of block random rocking P D. Spanos and A.-S. Koh • Seismic risk analysis of the North Sea P. H. Swearingen and A. S. Cakmak • Vol 9, No 2, June 1986 ISSN 0309-1708 A practical prediction of secondorder wave diffraction caused by large offshore structures Matiur Rahman • Kinematic wave approximation to the initiation of subsurface storm flow in a sloping forest soil P. F. Germann et aL • Designing optimal strategies for contaminated groundwater remediation D. P. A h l f e l d e t a L • A note on the representation of nonlinearity in runoff process by the general hydrologic system model T. Babu Rao • Derivation of some frequency distributions using the principle of maximum entropy (POME) V. P. Singh et aL • Vol 8, No 3, July 1986 ISSN 0141-1187 Stress analysis of extruded joints for use in offshore structures X. Niu and W. D. Dover • On the time domain simulation of second order wave forces and induced responses R. S. Langley • Transmission of oblique waves through submerged apertures P. L-F. Liu and J. Wu • Hydrodynamic force on circular cylinders O. S. Madsen • A microcomputer code for tsunami generation and propagation C. G. K o u t i t a s e t a l . • Minimisation of maximum moment in offshore pipeline during installation S. S. Bhavikatti et al. • Spoilers for the suppression of vortex-induced oscillations (Technical Note) P. K. Stansby e t al. • Vol 5, No 3, July 1986 ISSN 0267-7261 Time-domain boundary element method in visco-elasticity with application to a spherical cavity J. P. Wolf and G. R. Darbre • Dynamic interaction between rigid foundations in a layered half-space H. L. Wong and J, E. Luco • Seismic support of electronic and computer equipment on raised floors I.-K. Chang et aL • Soilstructure interaction effects on the Vol 3, No 2, June 1986 ISSN 0264-682X A boundary element formulation for large strain problems of compressible plasticity A. Chandra and S. Mu kherjee • The two-dimensional boundary integral equation method in elasticity with a consistent boundary formulation M. A. Sutton et aL • Finite element analysis of freeway dynamics I. Okutaniet aL • A Galerkin.:nodel for non-linear glass plates C. V. Girija Vallabhan and Fu Yu Ku • Boundary integral equation formulations for unsteady incompressible viscous fluid flow by timedifferencing N. Tosaka and K. Onishi • BEM 82: Numerical experiences and new facilities H, Strese • Dynamic analysis of 'tree-like' structures undergoing large motions-a finite segment approach M, L. Amirouche • Best approximation of two-dimensional potential problems using the CVBEM T. V. Hromadka II • On the reduction of domain integrals to the boundary for the BEM formulation of plates on elastic foundation J. A. Coasta Jr and C, A. Brebbia • Vol 2, No 3, July 1986 ISSN 0266-9463 Kummer function subroutines with application to wave problems W. L. Neu and R. P. Shaw • Microcomputer analysis of contaminant transport at a superfund site W. B. Mills et al. • Computing confidence intervals for floods I and II R. Whitley and T. V. Hromadka II • An alternative multiregion storage technique for BEM using constant elements M. C. Assaad et aL • Two-dimensional simulation of groundwater solute transport by finite element method Adv. Eng. Software, 1986, Vol. 8, No. 4 241