Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials

1. Finite Element Limit Analysis and Porous Mises-Schleicher Material
Franck Pastor, Joseph Pastor, Djimedo Kondo

2. Limit Analysis: A Layered Approach for Composite Laminates
Aurora Angela Pisano, Paolo Fuschi, Dario Domenico

3. Shakedown Analysis of Kinematically Hardening Structures in n-Dimensional Loading Spaces
Jaan-Willem Simon

4. Computation of Bounds for Anchor Problems in Limit Analysis and Decomposition Techniques
J. J. Muñoz, N. Rabiei, A. Lyamin, A. Huerta

5. Shakedown Analysis of Reissner-Mindlin Plates Using the Edge-Based Smoothed Finite Element Method
Thanh Ngọc Trần, M. Staat

6. Progress in Plastic Design of Composites
Min Chen, Abdelkader Hachemi

7. The Residual Stress Decomposition Method (RSDM): A Novel Direct Method to Predict Cyclic Elastoplastic States
Konstantinos V. Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos D. Panagiotou

8. Use of Layout Optimization to Solve Large-Scale Limit Analysis and Design Problems
Matthew Gilbert, Colin C. Smith, Samuel J. Hawksbee, Andrew Tyas

9. Macroscopic Modeling of Porous Nonassociated Frictional Materials
Long Cheng, Géry Saxcé, Djimedo Kondo

10. Direct Evaluation of the Post-Buckling Behavior of Slender Structures Through a Numerical Asymptotic Formulation
Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Bilotta, Antonio Madeo, Raffaele Casciaro

11. A Quasi-periodic Approximation Based Model Reduction for Limit Analysis of Micropile Groups
Zied Kammoun, Joseph Pastor, Hichem Smaoui

12. The Anderson-Bishop Problem—Thermal Ratchetting of a Polycrystalline Metals
A. R. S. Ponter, A. C. F. Cocks

13. Recent Development and Application of the Linear Matching Method for Design Limits in Plasticity and Creep: An Overview
Haofeng Chen, Weihang Chen

Keywords: Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Structural Materials, Civil Engineering, Computational Intelligence