FOREWORD

The international conference series on Advances in Steel Structures was initiated in 1996, under the auspices of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which remained very active in fostering its continuation - joined, a few years later, by the Hong Kong Institute of Steel Construction. The eighth conference of the series, ICASS’2015, took place in Lisbon, Portugal on July 21-24, 2015 - the venue was Instituto Superior Técnico from the University of Lisbon. It was the first conference of the series to take place outside of Asia. Indeed, the first, second, third and sixth conferences were held in Hong Kong, the fourth in Shanghai, the fifth in Singapore and the seventh in Nanjing. As its predecessors, ICASS’2015 aimed at providing a forum for the discussion and dissemination, by both researchers and designers, of the most recent theoretical, numerical and experimental advances in the analysis, behaviour, design and construction of steel, aluminium and composite steel-concrete structures.