Direct Methods for Limit State of Materials and Structures

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.