Limit States of Materials and Structures

by Weichert, Dieter; Ponter, Alan

• ISBN13: 9781402096334
• ISBN10: 140209633X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-07-04
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

To determine most exactly the carrying capacity of a structure or a structural element has always been a major concern to any design engineer. For safety sensitive structures this implies not only situations of normal service conditions but also states near to failure or post-critical states in order to better prevent accidents by appropriate design. Among the rational design tools available to engineers, for this purpose the so-called "direct methods", embracing in particular limit- and shakedown analysis, have always been particularly attractive due to the fact that they allow to determine in a constructive way directly the limit loads of a structure. This holds true for simple loading by proportionally applied mechanical and thermal loads, but also for the more complicated situation of variable loading even in the case when the loading history is not deterministically given.

Table of Contents

The Linear Matching Method for Limit Loads, Shakedown Limits and Ratchet Limits	p. 1
Large Problems in Numerical Limit Analysis: A Decomposition Approach	p. 23
Gurson Model for Porous Pressure Sensitive Materials	p. 45
A Direct Method for the Determination of Effective Strength Domains for Periodic Elastic-Plastic Media	p. 67
Stochastic Limit Load Analysis of Elasto-Plastic Plane Frames	p. 87
Limit Load Analysis of Plane Frames Under Stochastic Uncertainty	p. 113
Reliability Analysis of Inelastic Shell Structures Under Variable Loads	p. 135
Static Shakedown Theorem for Solids with Temperature-Dependent Elastic Modulus	p. 157
On Shakedown of Structures Under Variable Loads with a Kinematic Non-linear and Non-associated Hardening Rule	p. 179
Limit Analysis of Orthotropic Laminates by Linear Matching Method	p. 197
Mechanical Surface Treatments and Life Improvement	p. 221
Force Method - Based Procedures in the Limit Equilibrium Analysis of Framed Structures	p. 233
Shakedown Analysis of Composite Materials Based on Non-linear Mathematical Programming	p. 253
A Non-linear Programming Approach to Shakedown Analysis for a General Yield Condition	p. 271
Application of Shakedown Analysis to Large-Scale Problems with Selective Algorithm	p. 289
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