Application of discontinuity layout optimization to plane plasticity problems

DOI10.1098/rspa.2006.1788zbMath1145.74032MaRDI QIDQ5438431

Matthew Gilbert, Unnamed Author

Publication date: 23 January 2008

Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/3397/1/gilbertm1.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

upper bound; limit analysis; adaptive nodal connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74C05: Small-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including rigid-plastic and elasto-plastic materials)

74P10: Optimization of other properties in solid mechanics

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• Mosek

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