Advances in Steel Structures (ICASS '99)

These two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers and 126 contributed papers to be presented at the Second International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held on 15-17 December 1999 in Hong Kong. The conference is a sequel to the International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held in Hong Kong in December 1996. The conference will provide a forum for discussion and dissemination by researchers and designers of recent advances in the analysis, behaviour, design and construction of steel structures. The papers to be presented at the conference cover a wide spectrum of topics and were contributed from over 15 countries around the world. They report the current state-of-the art and point to future directions of structural steel research.

Chapter headings and selected papers: Volume I. Preface. International scientific committee. Local advisory committee. Local organising committee. Keynote Papers. A cumulative damage model for the analysis of steel frames under seismic actions (Z.-Y. Shen). Beams and Columns. Chaotic belt phenomena in nonlinear elastic beam (Z. Nianmei et al.). Frames and Trusses. Second-order plastic analysis of steel frames (P.P.-T. Chui, S.-L. Chan). Space Structures. Connections. The design of pins in steel structures (R.Q. Bridge). Cold-Formed Steel. Section moment capacity of cold-formed unlipped channels (B. Young, G.J. Hancock). Composite Construction. Bridges. Stability analysis of curved cable-stayed bridges (Y.-C. Wang et al.). Volume II. Preface. International scientific committee. Local advisory committee. Local organising committee. Plates. Post-buckling of unilaterally constrained mild steel plates (S.T. Smith et al.). Shells. Abnormal behaviour of a steel silo caused by paddy rice storage (M.P. Luong). Design and Construction. Site measurement of vibration characteristics of Shanghai Jin Mao Tower (W. Shi et al.). Dynamics and Seismic Design. Dynamic performance of steel lightweight floors (M.M. Alikhail et al.). Prestressing. Fatigue and Fracture. Reliability analysis of draw bar of large-scale lock mitre gate (Z.G. Xu et al.). Fire Performance. Optimization. Study on optimization of particular and multi-variable structures by wavelet analysis (L. Liu et al.). Analysis. Hoop stress reduction by using reinforced rivets in steel structures (K.T. Chau et al.). Soil Structure Interaction. Composite foundation of deep mixing piles for large steel oil tanks on soft ground (X. Xie et al.). Late Papers. Index of contributors. Keyword index.