Advances in Direct Methods for Limit States of Structures and Materials: Algorithms and Applications
暫譯: 結構與材料極限狀態直接方法的進展：演算法與應用

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos is Professor of Structural Mechanics at the Institute of Structural Analysis
& Antiseismic Research of the School of Civil Engineering of the National Technical University of
Athens (NTUA). He holds a Diploma in Civil Engineering from NTUA, an MSc from Imperial College in
Concrete Structures and a PhD Degree from the Aeronautics Department of Imperial College. His
research spans many different areas of Structural Mechanics, such as Inelasticity, Direct Methods for
Limit States, Nonlinear Reinforced Concrete Analysis (NRCA), Earthquake Engineering, Graph theory,
Mathematical Programming, Large Displacements and Strains, Large Rotations. He has published 35
papers in top rated international journals, 9 chapters in edited refereed books and has made 71
contributions in international conferences. He is editor and co-editor of 3 books. Work on NRCA has
been adopted by the ADINA software.

Dieter Weichert graduated from RWTH-Aachen University in Mechanical Engineering, obtained his
Dr.-degree and Habilitation from Ruhr-University Bochum. He held professional, academic and
managing positions at Krupp-Brüninghaus GmbH (Germany), American University of Beirut,
Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, Institut des Sciences Appliquées de Rouen and
RWTH-Aachen University. He was active as consultant for private and public organisations until
retirement in 2013. Fields of scientific interest: Solid Mechanics, Inelasticity, Failure of Materials and
Structures, Composites, Biomechanics. He is author, co-author, editor, co-editor of more than 300
papers and 9 books.

Konstantinos Spiliopoulos 是國立雅典技術大學 (NTUA) 土木工程學院結構分析與抗震研究所的結構力學教授。他擁有 NTUA 的土木工程學位、英國帝國學院的混凝土結構碩士學位，以及帝國學院航空系的博士學位。他的研究涵蓋結構力學的多個不同領域，如非彈性、極限狀態的直接方法、非線性鋼筋混凝土分析 (NRCA)、地震工程、圖論、數學規劃、大位移與應變、大旋轉。他在頂尖國際期刊上發表了 35 篇論文，編寫了 9 章經過審核的編輯書籍，並在國際會議上發表了 71 篇貢獻。他是 3 本書的編輯和共同編輯。NRCA 的研究成果已被 ADINA 軟體採用。

Dieter Weichert 於亞琛工業大學 (RWTH-Aachen University) 獲得機械工程學位，並在波鴻魯爾大學獲得博士學位及資格認證。他曾在德國的克魯普-布倫哈斯有限公司、美國貝魯特大學、里爾科學與技術大學、魯昂應用科學學院及亞琛工業大學擔任專業、學術及管理職位。他在 2013 年退休之前，曾擔任私人及公共機構的顧問。其科學興趣領域包括固體力學、非彈性、材料與結構的失效、複合材料及生物力學。他是超過 300 篇論文及 9 本書的作者、合著者、編輯及共同編輯。