Advances in direct methods for materials and structures

✍ Scribed by Barrera, Olga; Cocks, Alan; Ponter, Alan

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Leaves: 221
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book offers a state-of-the-art overview and includes recent developments of various direct computational analysis methods. It is based on recently developed and widely employed numerical procedures for limit and shakedown analysis of structures and their extensions to a wide range of physical problems relevant to the design of materials and structural components. The book can be used as a complementary text for Read more...

Abstract: This book offers a state-of-the-art overview and includes recent developments of various direct computational analysis methods. It is based on recently developed and widely employed numerical procedures for limit and shakedown analysis of structures and their extensions to a wide range of physical problems relevant to the design of materials and structural components. The book can be used as a complementary text for advanced academic courses on computational mechanics, structural mechanics, soil mechanics and computational plasticity and it can be used a research text

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-viii
Limit Load Theorems for the Drucker-Prager Yield Condition with a Non-associated Flow Rule (A. R. S. Ponter)....Pages 1-11
A Direct Method for Predicting the High-Cycle Fatigue Regime of Shape-Memory Alloys Structures (Michaël Peigney)....Pages 13-28
Shakedown Within Polycrystals: A Direct Numerical Assessment (D. Magisano, E. Charkaluk, G. de Saxcé, T. Kanit)....Pages 29-50
On the Size of the Representative Volume Element Used for the Strength Prediction: A Statistical Survey Applied to the Particulate Reinforce Metal Matrix Composites (PRMMCs) (Geng Chen, Alexander Bezold, Christoph Broeckmann, Dieter Weichert)....Pages 51-72
R-adaptivity in Limit Analysis (José J. Muñoz, James Hambleton, Scott W. Sloan)....Pages 73-84
Shakedown Analysis Under Stochastic Uncertainty by Chance Constrained Programming (N. T. Tran, T. N. Tran, H. G. Matthies, G. E. Stavroulakis, M. Staat)....Pages 85-103
Composite Finite Elements in Structural Analysis (G. Garcea, L. Leonetti)....Pages 105-128
Recent Progress on Lower-Bound Shakedown Analysis of Road Pavements (J. Wang, S. Liu, H.S. Yu)....Pages 129-142
Numerical Yield Design Analysis of High-Rise Reinforced Concrete Walls in Fire Conditions (J. Bleyer, D. T. Pham, P. de Buhan)....Pages 143-161
Efficient Shakedown Solutions in Complex Loading Domains (K. D. Panagiotou, K. V. Spiliopoulos)....Pages 163-177
Some Graphical Interpretations of Melan’s Theorem for Shakedown Design (N. Vermaak, M. Boissier, L. Valdevit, R. M. McMeeking)....Pages 179-198
High Temperature Limit Analysis of Pressure Vessels and Piping with Local Wall-Thinning (X. Du, Y. Liu, J. Zhang)....Pages 199-217

✦ Subjects

Materials -- Analysis;TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General);TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Reference

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