Formulation and solution of some plasticity problems as conic programs

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1533-1549

  Krabbenhoft K ^a   Lyamin, A V ^a   Sloan, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conic programming; Finite elements; Interior point; Optimization; Plasticity

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION;

CONIC CONSTRAINTS; CONIC PROGRAMMING; PLASTICITY PROBLEMS;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

EID: 33846103988     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2006.06.036     Document Type: Article

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