8Th International Conference on Computational Structures Technology, Cst 2006, Date: 12 September 2006 through 15 September 2006, Location: Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Sponsors: University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC);Univ. Institute of Intelligent Syst. and;Numerical Applications in Engineering (IUSIANI) at ULPGC;Spanish Society for Numerical Methods in Eng. (SEMNI);Spanish Society for Applied Mathematics (SEMA)