IASS-IACM 2008 Session: Finite Element Technology -- "On the propagation of pyrotechnical shocks into complex structures, taking medium frequencies into account" by Pierre LADEVEZE, Guillaume BEZIER, Herve RIOU, Hugo LECLERC (ENS Cahcan) -- "Non-intrusive coupled global/local analysis of localized plasticity problems" by Lionel GENDRE, Olivier ALLIX, Pierre GOSSELET (ENS Cachan), Francois COMTE (Snecma Villaroche) -- "Re-triangulation of existing surface meshes with high curvatures" by Antonio Carlos MIRANDA, Luiz Fernando MARTHA (PUC-Rio), Paul WAWRZYNEK, Anthony INGRAFFEA (Cornell University) -- "Mapping functions in the eight node elastodynamic infinite element with union shape function (EIEUSF)" by Konstantin Savkov KAZAKOV (VSU "Luben Karavelov")