Advances in Direct Methods for Materials and Structures

Download or read book Advances in Direct Methods for Materials and Structures written by Olga Barrera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a state-of-the-art overview and includes recent developments of various direct computational analysis methods. It is based on recently developed and widely employed numerical procedures for limit and shakedown analysis of structures and their extensions to a wide range of physical problems relevant to the design of materials and structural components. The book can be used as a complementary text for advanced academic courses on computational mechanics, structural mechanics, soil mechanics and computational plasticity and it can be used a research text.