"Extended abstracts of the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2002, are included in this book. The full-length papers are available in electronic format on the accompanying CD-ROM. Topics information systems, engineering design, knowledge based systems, object oriented methods, CAD and mesh generation, virtual reality, engineering simulation, boundary element methods, 3D underground works simulations, Navier-Stokes equation solving, industrial applications of CFD, fluid problems, casting and forging problems, parallel computing, multibody modeling, database applications, geotechnical engineering, optimization, genetic algorithms, and neural networks."