Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials

<p>Foreword<br><br>Preface</p><p>Finite element Limit Analysis and porous Mises-Schleicher material; Franck Pastor, Joseph Pastor and Djimedo Kondo</p><p>Limit Analysis: A Layered Approach for Composite Laminates; Aurora Angela Pisano, Paolo Fuschi, Dario De Domenico<br><br></p><p>Shakedown analysis of kinematically hardening structures in n-dimensional loading spaces; J.-W. Simon<br><br></p><p>Computation of bounds for anchor problems in limit analysis and decomposition techniques;  J. J. Munoz, N.  Rabiei , A. Lyamin, and A. Huerta<br><br></p><p>Shakedown analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates using the edge-based smoothed finite element method; Thanh Ngọc Trần and M. Staat<br><br></p><p>Progress in plastic design of composites;  Min Chen, Abdelkader Hachemi<br><br></p><p>The Residual Stress Decomposition Method (RSDM): A novel direct method to predict cyclic elastoplastic states; Konstantinos V. Spiliopoulos and Konstantinos D. Panagiotou<br><br></p><p>Use of layout optimization to solve large-scale limit analysis and design problems;  Matthew Gilbert, Colin Smith, Samuel Hawksbee and Andrew Tyas<br><br></p><p>Macroscopic modeling of porous non associated frictional materials; Long Cheng, Gery de Saxce and Djimedo Kondo<br><br></p><p>Direct evaluation of the post-buckling behavior of slender structures through a numerical asymptotic formulation; Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Bilotta, Antonio Madeo and Raffaele Casciaro<br><br></p><p>A Quasi-Periodic Approximation based Model Reduction for Limit Analysis of Micropile Groups; Zied Kammoun, Joseph Pastor and Hichem Smaoui<br><br></p><p>The Anderson-Bishop Problem – Thermal Ratchetting of a Polycrystalline Metals;  A.R.S. Ponter and A.C.F. Cocks<br><br></p><p>Recent development and application of the Linear Matching Method for design limits in plasticity and creep: an overview; Haofeng Chen and Weihang Chen</p>