Shakedown analysis of plates (Q2265853)

A numerical approach for shakedown analysis of laterally loaded elasto- plastic plates is presented. The normal moment criterion and the Tresca criterion are considered. Shakedown criteria are applied at a set of nodes distributed throughout the plate. Apart from the elastic analysis, the main computing work involves solving of a primal dual pair of linear programming problems. The analysis provides the shakedown limit and indicates the mode of failure (incremental collapse or alternating plasticity). Whenever incremental collapse is the critical mode the collapse mechanism is determined.