Edited by: M. Iványi, J.P. Muzeau and B.H.V. Topping

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Preliminaries
1	COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES
1.1	ConSteel as the Prototype of a CAD/CAM Oriented Program for Concurrent Design of Beam-Column Structures F. Papp and M. Ivanyi	1
1.2	Object-Oriented Definition of Compressed Battened Member for an Automatic CAD Procedure J. Szalai and F. Papp	13
1.3	A Computer Programme for the Analysis and Design of Steel Structures A.V. Avdelas and P. Stavridis	19
2	ANALYSIS OF STEEL STRUCTURES
2.1	Finite Element Analysis of Local Strains in Plate Girders I. Okura, K. Nézö, L. Dunai and M. Iványi	27
2.2	Nonlinear Finite Element Analysis of Plate Girders with Stiffener-End-Gaps J. Nézö, L. Dunai and M. Iványi	35
2.3	Lanczos Eigenvalue Analysis Applied to Buckling of Steel Pillars Y. Nagata and M. Kawahara	43
2.4	Uniform and Patch Loaded Steel Plates: Comparisons Between Analysis and Experiment G.J. Turvey and M.Y. Osman	49
2.5	Numerical and Experimental Analysis for Determination of the Mechanical Properties of Heat Treated Steels A. Nayebi, G. Mauvoisin, O. Bartier and R. El Abdi	61
3	MODELLING OF STEEL STRUCTURES
3.1	Fracture Mechanics based Fatigue Analysis of Bridges using Plane Strain Cracked Weld Models K. Kiss and L. Dunai	71
3.2	Computer Modelling and Experiments for Base Plate Column Connection Used in Piping Industry D. Laplume, D. Lamblin and G. Guerlement	79
4	ANALYSIS, MODELLING AND DESIGN OF STEEL CONNECTIONS
4.1	Swaged Bolts: Modelling of the Installation Process and Numerical Analysis of the Mechanical Behaviour M. Dréan, A.-M. Habraken, A. Bouchaïr and J.P. Muzeau	87
4.2	Computational Analysis and Design of Semi-Continuous Steel Frame Structures C.D. Fisher and R.Y. Xiao	99
4.3	Dynamic Behaviour of Semi-Rigid Steel Framing Connection using Friction Damping and ADAS Devices M. Tehranizadeh	107
5	DESIGN OF STEEL STRUCTURES
5.1	Optimum Design of Compression Columns of Welded I-Section and Comparison with Rolled Profiles K. Jármai and J. Farkas	119
5.2	Practical Advanced Analysis in Seismic Design of Steel Building Frames and 1997 LRFD Evaluations I.H. Chen and W.F. Chen	131
5.3	Realistic Minimum Weight Design of Steel Frameworks W. Gutkowski, J. Zawidzka, J. Zawidzki, D. Laplume, G. Guerlement and S. Boulanger	147
5.4	Heuristic Approach to Steel Frame Structural Optimisation A. Krajnc and D. Beg	155
5.5	Optimum Design of Steel I-Section Tapered Girders by using the Lagrange Penalty Function Approach M. Hosseini and A. Heydari	165

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