. Latin American Journal of Solids & Structures .

ISSN 1679-7817
(printed version)

ISSN 1679-7825
(on-line version)

LATIN AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
SPONSORED BY

Argentinean Association of Computational Mechanics, AMCA
Brazilian Association of Computational Mechanics, ABMEC
Mexican Association of Numerical Methods in Engineering and Applied Sciences
Brazilian Association of Engineering and Mechanical Sciences, ABCM

Chilean Society for Computational Mechanics

Editors:

Marcílio Alves	(Brazil)	Paulo de Mattos Pimenta	(Brazil)

International Associate Editor:

Ted Belytschko	(U.S.A. )	Narinder K. Gupta	(India )
Norman Jones	(U.K. )	Dora Karagiozova	(Bulgaria )
M. Langseth	(Norway )	Eugenio Ońate	(Spain )
Ole Sigmund	(Denmark )	Peter Wriggers	(Germany )
T.X.Yu	(Hong Kong )	Daniel Inman	(U.S.A. )

Latin American Associate Editor:

Alvaro Coutinho	(Brazil )	Philippe R. B. Devloo	(Brazil )
Raúl A. Feijoo	(Brazil )	Jun Sérgio Ono Fonseca	(Brazil )
Sérgio R. Idelsohn	(Argentina )	Jose Herskovits Norman	(Brazil )
Sergio Persival B. Proen»ca	(Brazil )	Ismael Herrera Revilla	(Mexico )
Valder Steffen Jr.	(Brazil )	Hans Webber	(Brazil )

International Advisory Board:

Maximilliano Avalle	(Italy )	Já Awrejcewicz	(Poland )
Ahmed Benallal	(France )	Robert S. Birch	(UK )
Michael Brunig	(Germany )	Claudia Comi	(Italy )
J.H. Lin	(China )	Gerald Nurick	(South Africa )
Glaucío Hermógenes Paulino	(USA )	Patricia Verleysen	(Belgium )

Latin American Advisory Board:

Carlos A. de Almeida	(Brazil )	Antonio Avila	(Brazil )
Marco L. Bittencourt	(Brazil )	Marcela Cruchaga	(Chile )
Larissa Driemeier	(Brazi )	Eduardo Fancello	(Brazil )
Julio Flórez-López	(Venezuela )	Rogério Marczak	(Brazil )
Heraldo da Costa Mattos	(Brazil )	Victorio Sonzogni	(Argentina )