Aims and Scope: Engineering Structures provides a forum for a broad blend of scientific and technical papers to reflect

the evolving needs of the structural engineering and structural mechanics communities. Particularly welcome are contributions dealing with applications of structural engineering and mechanics principles and theories in all areas of technology. The journal aspires to a broad and integrated coverage of the effects of dynamic loadings and of the modelling techniques whereby the structural response to these loadings may be computed. The scope of Engineering Structures encompasses, but is not restricted to, the following areas: infrastructure engineering; earthquake engineering; structure-fluid-soil interaction; wind engineering; fire engineering; blast engineering; structural reliability/stability; life assessment/integrity; structural health monitoring; multi-hazard engineering; structural dynamics; optimization; expert systems; experimental modelling; performance-based design; multiscale analysis; engineering economics. Topics of interest include: tall buildings; innovative structures; environmentally responsive structures; bridges; stadiums; commercial and public buildings; transmission towers; television and telecommunication masts; cooling towers; plates and shells; suspension structures, smart structures; nuclear reactors; dams; pressure vessels; pipelines; tunnels. Engineering Structures also publishes review articles, short communications and discussions, book reviews, and a diary on international events related to any aspect of structural engineering.

Editor-in-Chief
AMERICAS and REST OF WORLD Professor P. L. Gould Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Structural Engineering Washington University, St Louis, MO 63130, USA Tel.: +1 314 935 6383 Fax: +1 314 935 4338

Regional Editors EUROPE Professor H. A. Mang Austrian Academy of Sciences, Seipel-Platz 2, A-1010 Vienna, Austria Tel.: +43 1 51581 1202 (1203) (1206) Fax: +43 1 51581 1209 ASIA and PACIFIC Professor S. Kitipornchai School of Civil Engineering The University of Queensland Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia Tel.: +61 7 3365 3655 Fax: +61 7 3365 4599 Mobile: +61 466 484 282 E-mail: s.kitipornchai@uq.edu.au Website: www.civil.uq.edu.au

Book Review Editor

Professor D. A. Nethercot
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Imperial College of Science, Technology & Medicine, Imperial College Road, London SW7 2BU, UK

International Editorial Board

Dr J. M. Adam Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Span Professor J. Blaauwendraad Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Professor M. A. Bradford The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Professor M. Bruneau State University of New York, NY, USA L. Caracoglia Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA Dr M. Celebi USGS, Menlo Park, CA, USA Professor S. L. Chan Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Professor B. R. Ellingwood The Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA Professor D. M. Frangopol Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA Professor T. V. Galambos University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA Professor P. Gulkan Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey Professor H. Hao University of Western Australia, Australia Dr G. Hofstetter Universita t Innsbruck, Austria Professor M. B. D. Hueste Texas A&M University, Texas, TX, USA Professor A. Kappos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece Professor Ahsan Kareem University of Notre Dame, Indiana, IN, USA Professor T. Krauthammer University of Florida, FL, USA Professor R. Lackner Technical University, Munich, Germany Professor J. M. LaFave University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA Professor A. Y. T. Leung City University, Hong Kong Professor K. M. Liew City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong pez Professor R. Lo University of Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico P. B. Lourenco m, Guimara es, Universidade do Minho, Azure Portugal Professor X. Lu Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China Professor G. Maier Milan Polytechnic, Milan, Italy Professor A. R. Mari Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain Professor R. Melchers University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia Professor G. Meschke Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany Professor S. Nagarajaiah Rice University, Houston, TX, USA Professor Dr.-Ing P. Osterrieder Brandenberg Technical University, Cottbus, Germany M. Papadrakakis National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece Professor Dr.-Ing E. Ramm Universit at Stuttgart, Germany Professor J. N. Reddy Texas A&M University College Station, TX, USA Professor W.-X. Ren Central South University, PR China Professor Dr J. D. Riera Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil Professor G. I. Schue ller Universita t Innsbruck, Austria Professor K. Schweizerhof Universita t Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Y. Shi Tsinghua University, Beijing, China I. Smith University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada Professor I. Takewaki Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan Professor N. S. Trahair University of Sydney, Australia Professor J. van de Lindt The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA Professor C. M. Wang National University of Singapore, Singapore Professor Z. Waszczyszyn Cracow University of Technology, Poland Dr M. Wieland Poyry Energy Ltd, Zurich, Switzerland Professor H. Yamaguchi Saitama University, Saitama, Japan Professor Yeong-Bin Yang National Taiwan University, Taiwan, Republic of China Professor D. Yankelevsky Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Professor Y. Yuan Tongji University, Shanghai, PR China Professor F. Ziegler Technische Universita t Wien, Austria Professor A. Zingoni University of Cape Town, South Africa