Foreword -- Preface -- Finite element Limit Analysis and porous Mises-Schleicher material;  Franck Pastor, Joseph Pastor and Djimedo Kondo -- Limit Analysis: A Layered Approach for Composite Laminates; Aurora Angela Pisano, Paolo Fuschi, Dario De Domenico -- Shakedown analysis of kinematically hardening structures in n-dimensional loading spaces; J.-W. Simon -- Computation of bounds for anchor problems in limit analysis and decomposition techniques;  J. J. Munoz, N.  Rabiei , A. Lyamin, and A. Huerta -- Shakedown analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates using the edge-based smoothed finite element method; Thanh Ngọc Trần and M. Staat -- Progress in plastic design of composites;  Min Chen, Abdelkader Hachemi -- The Residual Stress Decomposition Method (RSDM): A novel direct method to predict cyclic elastoplastic states; Konstantinos V. Spiliopoulos and Konstantinos D. Panagiotou -- Use of layout optimization to solve large-scale limit analysis and design problems;  Matthew Gilbert, Colin Smith, Samuel Hawksbee and Andrew Tyas -- Macroscopic modeling of porous non associated frictional materials; Long Cheng, Gery de Saxce and Djimedo Kondo -- Direct evaluation of the post-buckling behavior of slender structures through a numerical asymptotic formulation; Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Bilotta, Antonio Madeo and Raffaele Casciaro -- A Quasi-Periodic Approximation based Model Reduction for Limit Analysis of Micropile Groups; Zied Kammoun, Joseph Pastor and Hichem Smaoui -- The Anderson-Bishop Problem – Thermal Ratchetting of a Polycrystalline Metals;  A.R.S. Ponter and A.C.F. Cocks -- Recent development and application of the Linear Matching Method for design limits in plasticity and creep: an overview; Haofeng Chen and Weihang Chen.