The latest developments in analysis and design of a wide range of steel structures, including buildings, bridges, towers, silos, offshore structures etc. Theoretical and experimental investigations on many topics such as analysis and design of elements, frames, connections, plates and shells, composite structures. Moreover fire and earthquake resistance design, fatique design as well as the latest developments in Eurocode3, the European Steel Design Code, which constitutes a major European contribution to modern codes, are also included.

Tubular structures remain a source of architectural inspiration and practical solutions to difficult performance specifications. New developments are covered in this text, which contains papers on design innovations and applications presented at an international symposium held in Australia in 1994.

Contents:
Foundation engineering & field & laboratory testing; Ground improvement & reinforced earth; Embankments, Excavations & buried structures; Earth structures, mines & slopes; Dynamic behaviours of soil & earthquakes.

A report on the technique of sand closures, the knowledge of which has been considerably broadened due to measurement and research, particularly during the two most recent sand closures of the Eastern Scheldt compartmenting dams (1986-1987).

Presents a collection of information for the selection and improvement of suitable natural materials, the manufacturing of artificial materials with adequate mechanical properties, the optimization of forming processes, and the analysis and design of engineering works and structures.