“…Successful applications of parallel processing and supercomputing in civil engineering started in areas of structural engineering in the early 1990s such as finite‐element analysis (Hsu and Adeli, 1991; Adeli and Kamal, 1992a, b; Soegiarso and Adeli, 1995; Adeli and Kumar, 1995a; Adeli, 2000), large‐scale design optimization (Adeli and Hsu, 1994; Soegiarso and Adeli, 1994; Saleh and Adeli, 1994a; Adeli and Cheng, 1994; Adeli and Park, 1996; Park and Adeli, 1997; Sarma and Adeli, 2001), and vibration control (Saleh and Adeli, 1994b, 1996, 1997). Recently, parallel computing techniques are introduced for optimum structural design to speed up the message passing parallel systems (Foley, 2001; Umesha et al, 2007; Yin et al, 2010). Several constitutive models have also been implemented into parallel finite‐element code to perform structure analysis (Danielson et al, 2008).…”