V. Plevris and G.C. Tsiatas, “Computational structural engineering: Past achievements and future challenges”, Frontiers in Built Environment: Computational Methods in Structural Engineering, 4:21 (DOI: 10.3389/fbuil.2018.00021), 2018.

Conclusions:
Structural engineering has endured extraordinary challenges in recent years worldwide. Many of the tasks that a structural engineer used to do on his/her own in the past are now being done by computers. New ideas have evolved, outside the scope of prescriptive design codes and the use of computers is dominant nowadays. Very powerful capabilities are now available for the simulation and analysis of structures, yet there are still many exciting research challenges and the field of computational structural engineering will continue to grow and increasingly contribute to technological development. We strongly believe that we are only at the beginning of the use of computer simulations and we only now begin to understand the extent to which these will influence and enrich the engineering profession and our lives in general.

Keywords:
computational methods, structural engineering, challenges, FEM, BEM, meshless methods