The technical program for SMiRT 16 consisted of an Opening Address, a Leadership Forum on "Challenges to Structural Mechanics: Safety and Cost," six plenary lectures, a plenary panel session, 99 paper sessions and 10 workshop sessions. In addition, there were two Post Conference Seminars.

Presented by
International & American Associations for Structural Mechanics in Reactor Technology (IASMiRT / AASMiRT)
North Carolina State University

in cooperation with

• ASM International ®-The Material Information Society
• The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
• American Academy of Mechanics
• American Concrete Institute
• American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• American Institute of Steel Construction
• American Nuclear Society-Power Operations Division
• American Society for Testing & Materials-Committee E08
• American Society of Civil Engineers
• Argonne National Laboratory
• Earthquake Engineering Research Institute
• The Institute of Electronics & Electrical Engineers-Power Society
• Sandia National Laboratories

and

• Commission of the European Communities