Limit State of Materials and Structures

1. The Ratchet Limit—A Coupled Dual Minimisation Problem
Alan R. S. Ponter

2. Decomposition Methods and Strain Driven Algorithms for Limit and Shakedown Analysis
Giovanni Garcea, Leonardo Leonetti

3. Shakedown and Optimization Analysis of Periodic Composites
M. Chen, A. Hachemi, D. Weichert

4. An Upper Bound Algorithm for Limit and Shakedown Analysis of Bounded Linearly Kinematic Hardening Structures
Phu Tinh Phạm, Manfred Staat

5. An Edge-Based Smoothed Finite Element Method for Primal-Dual Shakedown Analysis of Structures Under Uncertainties
Thanh Ngọc Trân, Manfred Staat

6. Interior-Point Method for Lower Bound Shakedown Analysis of von Mises-Type Materials
J.-W. Simon, D. Weichert

7. Numerical Analysis of Nonholonomic Elastoplastic Frames by Mathematical Programming
Konstantinos V. Spiliopoulos, Theodoros N. Patsios

8. Inelastic Behavior of a Two-Bar System with Temperature-Dependent Elastic Modulus Under Cyclic Thermomechanical Loadings
Abdelbacet Oueslati, Géry Saxcé, Simon Hasbroucq

9. A Multiphase Model for Assessing the Overall Yield Strength of Soils Reinforced by Linear Inclusions
Patrick Buhan, Ghazi Hassen

10. Limit Analysis of a Soil Reinforced by Micropile Group: A Decomposition Approach
Z. Kammoun, J. Pastor, H. Smaoui

11. An Extension of Gurson Model to Ductile Nanoporous Media
L. Dormieux, D. Kondo

12. Limit Analysis and Conic Programming for Gurson-Type Spheroid Problems
F. Pastor, P. Thoré, D. Kondo, J. Pastor

Keywords: Engineering, Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials, Engineering Design, Civil Engineering, Computational Intelligence