5th Symposium on Mechanics of Slender Structures 2015 (MoSS2015)

This issue of Journal of Physics: Conference Series contains sixteen selected technical papers that were presented at the 5th Symposium on the Mechanics of Slender Structures (MoSS2015) and show a range of different approaches used in the analysis of slender structures. The meeting was held in Northampton, UK, from 21st to 22nd September 2015. This conference runs under the auspices of the Institute of Physics Applied Mechanics Group and forms a continuation of a successful meeting series on the Mechanics of Slender Structures first held in Northampton, UK, in 2006, followed by the event hosted in Baltimore, USA in 2008, in San Sebastian, Spain in 2010, and in Harbin, China in 2013