The IUTAM Symposium on Advanced Boundary Element Methods brought together both established and current researchers in the broad context of applications of BEM technology. The goal of the Symposium was to provide both a formal and an informal forum for the interchange of ideas and the stimulation of new research directions.

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Stress Intensity Factors for an Embedded Crack Near a Cylindrical Cavity.- Hybrid Formulation for the Green Function in Stratified Media: Application to Wave Scattering Against Lateral Heterogeneities.- Application of Advanced Boundary Element and Coupled Methods in Geomechanics.- Boundary Element Methods for Two Dimensional Bimaterial Fracture Problems.- Regular B. I. E. for Three-Dimensional Cracks in Elastodynamics.- Coupling Finite Elements and Boundary Elements in Eddy-Current Computations.- The Solution of Parabolic Problems Using the Dual Reciprocity Boundary Element.- Boundary Element Method for Deterministic and Stochastic Shape Design Sensitivity Analysis.- New Developments in the Boundary Element Method for Plane and Axisymmetric Elasticity.- Simulation of Rolling Processes by the Boundary Element Method.- Boundary Element Method Applied to 3D Optimum Design.- Boundary Element Method for Visco-Poroelasticity Applied to Soil Consolidation.- Coupling of Finite Elements and Boundary Elements for Transmission Problems of Elastic Waves in R3.- Seismic Response of Foundations on Zoned Soils.- The Treatment of Singularities and the Application of the Overhauser C(1) Continuous Quadrilateral Boundary Element to Three Dimensional Elastostatics.- A Numerical Study for Convergence of a Classic 3D Problem Solved by BEM.- Condition of a Boundary Integral Equation for the Elasticity Problem, and Round-off Errors in Its Numerical Solution.- Development and Application of Panel Methods.- Free and Forced Vibrations of Polygonal Mindlin-Plates by an Advanced BEM.- Geometrically Nonlinear Analysis of Elastic Plates by the Boundary Element Method.- BIE Calculations for Harmonic Waves in a Solid with Periodically Distributed Inhomogeneities.- Single Integral Equations for Scattering by a Penetrable Obstacle.- A Polar Coordinate Integration Scheme with a Hierarchical Correction Procedure to Improve Numerical Accuracy.- Design Problem Relating to a Profile or a Cascade of Profiles and Construction of Orthogonal Networks Using the Riemann Surfaces for the Multiform Singularities.- Cubic Interpolation and Special Elements in Two-Dimensional Potential Problems Using the Boundary Element Method.- On the Symmetricability of Coupling Matrices for BEM-FEM Discretizations of Solids.- A Boundary Element Algorithm for Nonlinear Transient Elastic Wave Interaction with Frictional Interfaces.- Industrial Application of the BEM Using DBETSY.- BEM for Wave Equation with Boundary in Arbitrary Motion and Applications to Compressible Potential Aerodynamics of Airplanes and Helicopters.- An Improved Boundary Integral Equation Method for Crack Problems.- Steep Unsteady Water Waves and Boundary Integral Methods.- Boundary Integral Equation Method for Unsteady Viscous and Inviscid Flows.- An Integral Equation Analysis of Inelastic Shells.- A Consistent Formulation of the BEM within Elastoplasticity.- A Boundary Element Analysis of Natural Convection in Fluids and Porous Media.- A Geometric Preprocessor for an h-Refinement Technique for the Boundary Element Method.- A Special Boundary-Integral Formulation to Simulate a Manufacturing Process.- The Finite and Boundary Element Methods: One View of Their Foundations.- Boundary Integral Equation Formulations for Free Surface Flow Problems in Two and Three Dimensionas.- Boundary Integral Equation Method of Higher Computational Accuracy.- A Combined Boundary and Finite Element Implementation for Axisymmetric Thermoelasticity.- Non-linear Material Interfaces: A Boundary Element approach.- Coupling Boundary Integral and FiniteElement Formulations for Nonlinear Halfspace Problems.- Boundary Force Method Analyses of Notched Plates with Cracks.- Transient Solutions of a Three-Dimensional Convective Diffusion Equation Using Mixed Boundary Elements.- Simulation of Unsteady Free Surfaces Flow Problems by the Direct Boundary Element Method.- Integral Equation Method for Analysis of Newtonian and Non-Newtonian Flows.- Improving the Solution of the Boundary Element Method by Changing the Conditioning of the Matrix in Algebraic Equations.- The Boundary-Integral-Equation Method for Computing the Three-Dimensional Flow of Groundwater.- Overhauser Boundary Elements in Potential Theory and Linear Elastostatics.- Hermitian Cubic Boundary Elements for the Analysis of Cracks of Arbitrary Geometry.- Mathematical Properties and Asymptotic Error Estimates for Elliptic Boundary Element Methods.