A new discontinuous upper bound limit analysis formulation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1069-1088

  Krabbenhoft, Kristian ^a   Lyamin, Andrei V ^a   Hjiaj, Mohammed ^a   Sloan, Scott W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discontinuous; Duality; Finite element; Limit analysis; Plasticity; Upper bound

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; DURABILITY; PLASTICS; STRESSES; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BOUND FORMULATION; PLASTIC MULTIPLIERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLIDS; UPPER BOUND SOLUTIONS;

SOLIDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTICITY;

EID: 20844458571     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1314     Document Type: Article

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