Direct methods: History, present and future -- A unified shakedown limit equation for pavements and railways under repeated traffic loads -- Elastic-plastic optimisation of a cable-rib satellite antenna -- An introduction to the probabilistic linear matching method framework for structural integrity assessment under uncertain design conditions -- Peak load prediction of human bone proximal femur: sensitivity to tissues strength and geometry -- Graded damage solutions in one dimension -- Fatigue strength prediction of high silicon alloyed nodular cast iron by shakedown analysis -- A macroscopic fatigue criterion for ductile porous materials with Drucker-Prager dilatant matrix basing on the shakedown theory -- A direct method for cyclic crystal plasticity with application to high-cycle fatigue -- Masonry domes under complex loading conditions: A shell-based static limit analysis approach -- Robust optimization applied to uncertain limit analysis -- Advances of the RSDM-S: robusteness and convergence issues -- Mixed fiber elements and incremental-iterative algorithm for shakedown and limit fire analysis of 3D frames.