Direct Methods for Limit States in Structures and Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Spiliopoulos, Konstantinos (Editor), Weichert, Dieter (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational intelligence.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Civil engineering.; Structural materials.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Structural Materials.; Civil Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.

Knowing the safety factor for limit states such as plastic collapse, low cycle fatigue or ratcheting is always a major design consideration for civil and mechanical engineering structures that are subjected to loads. Direct methods of limit or shakedown analysis that proceed to directly find the lim...