Direct Methods for Limit State of Materials and Structures: Advanced Computational Algorithms and Material Modelling (Paperback, 2023)

Direct methods: History, present and future.-?A unified shakedown limit equation for pavements and railways under repeated traffic loads.-?Elastic-plastic optimisation of a cable-rib satellite antenna.-?An introduction to the probabilistic linear matching method framework for structural integrity assessment under uncertain design conditions.-?Peak load prediction of human bone proximal femur: sensitivity to tissues strength and geometry.-?Graded damage solutions in one dimension.-?Fatigue strength prediction of high silicon alloyed nodular cast iron by shakedown analysis.-?A macroscopic fatigue criterion for ductile porous materials with Drucker-Prager dilatant matrix? basing on the shakedown theory.-?A direct method for cyclic crystal plasticity with application to high-cycle fatigue.-?Masonry domes under complex loading conditions: A shell-based static limit analysis approach.-?Robust optimization applied to uncertain limit analysis.-?Advances of the RSDM-S:? robusteness and convergence issues.-?Mixed fiber elements and incremental-iterative algorithm for shakedown and limit fire analysis of 3D frames.