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point on the boundary and the other taking the source point outside, plays the role of the element error. The t7 and 17 r versio...
point on the boundary and the other taking the source point outside, plays the role of the element error. The t7 and 17 r versions of refinements are illustrated for the two-dimensional elastic problems.
Finally, the Guest Editor gratefully acknowledges all contributors.
Professor N. Kamiya Guest Editor Department of Mechano-ln)Cbrmaties and Systems. Nagoya University Nagoya 464-01, Japan
Biography The Guest Editor of the present issue, also one of the Associate Editors of Advances in Engineering Sqftware, Norio Kamiya is a Professor of Information Processing in the Department of Mechano-Informatics and Systems, Nagoya University. He finished undergraduate and graduate courses in the Department of Applied Physics, Nagoya University in 1963 and 1968, respectively, and obtained a Doctor of Engineering Degree in 1968. After working at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Mie University as Associate Professor and Professor for more than sixteen years, he returned to Nagoya in 1987. His early researches were concerned with analytical approaches to the solid and structural nonlinear mechanics. Later, they have been extended both to the basic study of numerical methods, especially for developments in BEM, and to the application-oriented, intelligent design systems. He is the author of many books and research papers. His more recent fruits in BEM research are concerned with adaptive boundary meshes, new schemes for eigenvalue determination, shape optimization and some nonlinear analyses.