"Lectures presented at the Third International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, held in Prague, Czech Republic, in September 2002, are included in this book. Contributors include C. G. Armstrong, S. N. Atluri, A. C. Benim, P. Bomme, D. Bowman, R. S. Crouch, Y. Dere, O. Hassan, P. K. Jimack, J. Lamont, P. D. Ledger, T. J. McCarthy, A. Meyer, D. J. Monaghan, K. Morgan, G. P. Nikishkov, A. K. Noor, H. Ou, J. Peraire, M. A. Price, M. F. Shiratuddin, E. D. Sotelino, W. Thabet, N. P. Weatherill, and T. Zimmermann. Topics include virtual reality technology, integrating CAE concepts with CAD geometry, combining the Galerkin boundary element method and the finite element method for modeling crack growth, domain decomposition techniques, equilibrium Euler-Euler modeling of pulverized coal combustion, and intelligent object-oriented techniques."