Upper and lower bounds in limit analysis: Adaptive meshing strategies and discontinuous loading

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 471-501

  Munoz J J ^a   Bonet, J ^b   Huerta, A ^a   Peraire, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive remeshing; Bounds; Limit analysis; Optimization

Indexed keywords

CONTROL THEORY; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

ADAPTIVE MESHING; ADAPTIVE REMESHING; BOUNDS; COLLAPSE LOADS; CONIC PROGRAMS; CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; DISCONTINUOUS SURFACES; ERROR ESTIMATES; IN-PLANE STRAINS; LIMIT ANALYSIS; LOWER BOUNDS; MESHING STRATEGIES; MOHR COULOMBS; NUMERICAL EXAMPLES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMUM VALUES; QUADRATIC CONSTRAINTS; SECOND ORDERS; STRESS FIELDS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL PROBLEMS; UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS; UPPER BOUNDS;

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 60949101655     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2421     Document Type: Article

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