Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials [Paperback]

Knowing the safety factor for limit states such as plastic collapse, low cycle fatigue or ratcheting is always a major design consideration for civil and mechanical engineering structures that are subjected to loads. Direct methods of limit or shakedown analysis that proceed to directly find the limit states offer a better alternative than exact time-stepping calculations as, on one hand, an exact loading history is scarcely known, and on the other they are much less time-consuming.
This book presents the state of the art on various topics concerning these methods, such as theoretical advances in limit and shakedown analysis, the development of relevant algorithms and computational procedures, sophisticated modeling of inelastic material behavior like hardening, non-associated flow rules, material damage and fatigue, contact and friction, homogenization and composites.

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 Ng?c Tr?n and M. Staat

Progress in plastic design of composites; ?Min Chen, Abdelkader Hachemi

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