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This bock presents comprehensive outlines of elastic numerical analysis of beams, axisymmetric plates, and circular-cylindrical tanks resting on elastic foundations and/or unyielding supports. The software included is based on the discussed numerical techniques and constitutes a powerful tool, making the design of related structures very easy. Thus, the book and software are of the greatest interest to practising engineers engaged in the design of beams, strips, circular plates, as well as cylindrical tanks and silos. Postgraduate students and researchers working in the area of soilstructure interaction should also find the book-software package of interest and genuine value. Furthermore, the book can be useful in engineering education involving modern computer-based techniques of analysis. To be more precisely, the author models elastic foundations either as Winkler springs or elastic-half-space continuum (isotropic of cross-anisotropic). Solution techniques incorporate a variant of the direct stiffness method (for beams, strips and tank wall cylinders), and an energy-based finite difference approach (for circular plates and tank base and roof plates). Loads include also temperature and shrinkage effects (in tanks). The emphasis is placed upon simplicity of analysis without compromising accuracy of the results.