Advances in Computational Mechanics: Selected, Peer Reviewed Papers from the 1st Australasian Conference on Computational Mechanics (ACCM 2013), October 3-4, 2013, Sydney, Australia

This volume contains the selected full-length papers from the 1st Australasian Conference of Computational Mechanics held in Sydney, Australia on 3-4 October 2013 (ACCM2013), where the authors represented 15 different countries, including Australia, New Zealand, China, Japan, South Korea, USA and European countries. The conference is organized by The University of Sydney under the Australian Association for Computational Mechanics (AACM). Scientifically, these collected articles in this special issue well reflected the latest progress made in some emerging areas of computational mechanics, including finite element, finite volume, particle and discrete element methods, structural and solid mechanics, aerospace engineering, geomechanics, advanced materials and multiscale modelling, biomechanics and biomedical engineering, structural and topology optimization, fracture and damage mechanics, computational fluid dynamics and vibration and dynamics.