Dear colleagues, The first issue of volume 5 of the Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures is now out.
Please access www.lajss.org for free download of the articles below. We welcome your support to LAJSS by accessing its site, downloading articles, referencing them and, of course, by submitting papers. As an average, a successfully submitted article is published within six months of its first system input. Yours sincerely Marcilio Alves Editor LAJSS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Volume 5, Number 1, March 2008 CONTENTS PAGE João B. de Aguiar 2D bending field of variable thickness floating ice floes loaded upon impact to an inclined wall Alexandre Luis Braun and Armando Miguel Awruch Geometrically non-linear analysis in elastodynamics using the eight-node Finite Element with one-point quadrature and the generalized-alpha method A. V. de A. Mello, J. G. S. da Silva, P. C. G. da S. Vellasco, S. A. L. de Andrade and L. R. O. de Lima Modal analysis of orthotropic composite floors slabs with profiled steel decks Antonio de Assis Brito Neto and Edison da Rosa Parametric uncertainty analysis considering metrological aspects in the structural simulation in viscoelastic materials