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Throughout the years there have been numerous studies on Dynamics and on Stabiüty of elastic structures, a topic of concem to civil engineering as well as to mechanical and electrical engineering and applied science in general. The thematic of this seminar pretends to encompass such general topics as those related to static buckling of structures or of their individual members or of complex mechanical systems, to actual áreas of concern and development in structural dynamics and control of vibrations in engineering. Addiúonally this seminar alsõ addresses the stability of structures under general dynamic loads, which are sensitive to initial imperfections and hence prone to catastrophic buckling failures; the analysis of these latter structural systems are based upon definitions of dynamic bucküng and on estimates and assessment of dynamic loads, as well as on single-mode and generalized criteria for dynamic buckling.