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Advances in Direct Methods for Materials and Structures

  • Presents a state-of-the-art review of direct methods employed in structural design and assessment

  • Collects the most recent results of specialized research focused on limit and shakedown analysis of structures

  • Represents the proceedings of biennial workshops held on this topic

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Shakedown Within Polycrystals: A Direct Numerical Assessment

    • D. Magisano, E. Charkaluk, G. de Saxcé, T. Kanit
    Pages 29-50
  3. R-adaptivity in Limit Analysis

    • José J. Muñoz, James Hambleton, Scott W. Sloan
    Pages 73-84
  4. 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
  5. Composite Finite Elements in Structural Analysis

    • G. Garcea, L. Leonetti
    Pages 105-128
  6. Efficient Shakedown Solutions in Complex Loading Domains

    • K. D. Panagiotou, K. V. Spiliopoulos
    Pages 163-177
  7. Some Graphical Interpretations of Melan’s Theorem for Shakedown Design

    • N. Vermaak, M. Boissier, L. Valdevit, R. M. McMeeking
    Pages 179-198

About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

    Olga Barrera, Alan Cocks

  • Department of Engineering, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom

    Alan Ponter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advances in Direct Methods for Materials and Structures

  • Editors: Olga Barrera, Alan Cocks, Alan Ponter

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59810-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59808-6Published: 04 September 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86706-9Published: 03 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59810-9Published: 22 August 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 217

  • Number of Illustrations: 119 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics

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