C.A Brebbia & W.P De Wilde 
High Performance Structures and Materials IV 

This Volume contains the proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on High Performance Structures and Materials, which was held in The Algarve, Portugal, in May 2008. HPSM is not just a conference on materials engineering: it tries to go much further, in the sense that it – rightfully – requires from the designer an awareness of evolving v