Inelastic Behaviour of Structures under Variable Repeated Loads

This book deals with the safety assessment of structures and structural components, possibly operating beyond the elastic limits under variable repeated thermo-mechanical loads. Examples of such situations can be found both in mechanical and civil engineering (e.g. transportation technologies, pressure vessels, pipelines, offshore platforms, dams, pavements and buildings in seismic zones). So-called "direct methods are focused, based on the shakedown theorems and their specialisation to limit theorems. These methods are receiving increased attention for the prediction of structural failure because they provide the information that is essential in practice (e.g. safety factor and collapse mechanisms) by more economical procedures than step-by-step inelastic analysis; also, they only need a minimum of information on the evolution of loads as functions of time. The addressed audience are primarily engineers and scientists active in Structural Engineering and Safety and Reliability Analysis.

Inhalt
Basic Definitions and Results; Variational Formulation; Nature of the Solutions; Implicit Standard Materials; Shakedown with Non Associated Flow Rule.- Fundamentals of Direct Methods in Poroplasticity; A Kinematical Method for Shakedown and Limit Analysis of Periodic Heterogeneous Media.- Shakedown of Structures Subjected to Dynamic External Actions and Related Bounding Techniques; Shakedown of Structures Accounting for Damage Effects.- Advanced Material Modelling in Shakedown Theory; Shakedown of Thin-Walled Structures with Geometrical Non-Linear Effects; Application of Shakedowm Theory and Numerical Methods.- A Linear Matching Method for Shakedown Analysis.- Shakedown, Limit, Inadaptation and Post-Yield Analysis; Limit and Shakedown Reliability Analysis; Computational Methods for Shakedown and Limit Reliability Analysis; Limit and Shakedown Reliability Optimization Accounting for Nonlinear Geometric Effects.- Application of Shakedown Theory to Fatigue Analysis of Structures