Stability and ductility of steel structures : proceeding of the 6th International Colloquium, first session, SDSS'99, Timișoara, Romania, 9-11 September 1999

Chapter headings and selected papers: Foreword. Basic Problems. Design Concept and Codification of Steel and Composite Steel Concrete Structures. Transition from deterministic to probabilistic structural steel reliability assessment with special attention to stability problems (M. Krejsa, P. Marek). Stability of Structural Members. Elastic lateral buckling of coped beams (R. Abspoel, J. Stark). Validation of design rules for member stability of European Standards - proposal for buckling rules (R. Greiner, R. Ofner). Stability of Plates and Plated Structures. Towards a better knowledge about the web breathing phenomenon (Y. Duchene et al.). Reduction of ultimate strength of girders due to stiffener-end-gaps (I. Okura et al.). Connections. Behaviour of beam-to-column joints in moment-resisting steel frames (C. Bernuzzi et al.). Remarks on the use of EC3-Annex J for the prediction of aluminium joint behaviour (G. De Matteis et al.). Local Ductility. Factors influencing ductility in high performance steel I-shaped beams (C.J. Earls). Ductility of plate girder panels under cyclic shear (Y. Fukumoto et al.). Framed Structures: Global Performances. The spatial behaviour of the scaffold used for the coal conveyance (A. Ivan et al.). Ductility and Seismic Response. Global performance of steel moment resisting frames with semi-rigid joints (D. Dubina et al.). Cold Formed Steel Members and Structures. Experimental verification of light structure (Z. Agocs). Elastic stability of built-up columns using the spline finite strip method (M. Djafour et al.). Stability and Dynamic of Shells. Combined action of monoaxial bending and axial compression in the view of new Eurocode 3-Part 2: Steel Bridges (H. Sertler). Author index. Keyword index.