Topics in Engineering ‘This series provides a rapid and informal dissemination of significant new work in engineering. It is aimed at high level coverage across a broad field of enginecring including mechanical, civil, hydraulic and structural, as well as artificial intelligence and other associated topics. Books in the Series are produced inexpensively in camera-ready form to allow as wide a readership as possible among the engineering community. Typical book size is between 100 and 500 pages. The Editorial Board Managing Editors C.A. Brebbia Wessex Institute of Technology University of Portsmouth Ashurst Lodge Ashurst S040 7AA UK J.J. Connor Department of Civil Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Consulting Editors Artificial Intelligence 1S. Gero Director of Research Architectural Computing Unit ‘The University of Sydney NSW 2006 Australia Boundary Element Methods RP. Shaw State University of New York at Buifalo 212 Ketter Hall Buffalo, NY 14260 USA Computational Mathematics EL. Ortiz Department of Mathematics Imperial College of Science & ‘Technology Huxley Building 180 Queen’s Gate London, SW7 2BZ UK E.R. de Arantes e Oliveira Laboratorio Nacional de Engenharia Civil Ay. do Brasil Lisboa Portugal Dynamics & Vibrations S.K. Chakrabai Director of Marine Research Chicago Bridge and Iron Co Plainficld, IL 60544-8929 USA J, Domingues Escuela Superior de Ingenieros Industriales Av. Reina Mercedes 41012 Sevilla Spain Hi. Liu Institute of Engineering Mechanics State Seismological Bureau Harbin China Earthquake Engineering AS. Cakmak Department of Civil Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Electrostatics G.T. Symm Division of Information Technology & Computing National Physical Laboratory ‘Teddington Middlesex, TW11 oLW UKEnvironmental Systems Analysis & Systems and Control Engineering S. Rinaldi Centro Teoria dei Sistemi Politecnico di Milano via Ponzio 34/5 20133 Milano Italy Fluid Dynamics J.C. Wa Department of Aerospace Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia 30332 USA Fluid Dynamics & Combustion S. Elghobashi Department of Mechanical & ‘Aerospace Engineering University of California Irvine, CA 92717 USA Geotechnical & Earthquake Engineering J.T. Christian Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation 245 Summer Street Boston, MA 02107 USA Hydraulics W.G. Gray Department of Civil Engineering University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, Indiana 46556 USA Material Mechanics LCF. Telles COPPE-UFRI University of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro 21945 Brazil Numerical Analysis/Hydrology/Flow Through Porous Media M.A. Celia Department of Civil Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Numerical Methods Du Qinghua Department of Engineering Mechanics ‘Tsinghua University, Peking Chi M. Tanaka Faculty of Engineering Department of Mechanical Engineering Shinshu University 500 Wakasato Nagano 380 Japan LR, Whiteman Institute of Computational Mathematics Brunel University Uxbridge Middlesex, UB8 3PH UK Parallel Computation & Architectures Y. Paker Queen Mary & Westfield College Centre for Parallel Computing Mile End Road London, E1 4NS uk Shell Analysis A. Tottenham Tottenham & Bennett, Consulting Engineers Broadwater House Broadwater Road Romsey, Hampshire 3051 8GT UK Soil Dynamics G. Schmid Ruhr-Universitat Bochum Universitatsstrasse 150 4630 Bochum 1 Postfach 102148 Gebande 1A 6, 37 Germany Thermal Problems K. Onishi Department of Mathematics Science University of Tokyo Wakamiya-cho 26 Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 162 JapanTopics in Engineering Volume 20 Anisotropic Analysis Using Boundary Elements N.A. Schclar Computational Mechanics Publications Southampton UK and Boston USA