TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tran, Thanh Ngoc
A1  - Staat, Manfred
T1  - Shakedown analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates using the edge-based smoothed finite element method
T2  - Direct methods for limit states in structures and materials / Dieter Weichert ; Alan Ponter, ed.
N2  - This paper concerns the development of a primal-dual algorithm for limit and shakedown analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates made of von Mises material. At each optimization iteration, the lower bound of the shakedown load multiplier is calculated simultaneously with the upper bound using the duality theory. An edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) combined with the discrete shear gap (DSG) technique is used to improve the accuracy of the solutions and to avoid the transverse shear locking behaviour. The method not only possesses all inherent features of convergence and accuracy from ES-FEM, but also ensures that the total number of variables in the optimization problem is kept to a minimum compared with the standard finite element formulation. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the present method.
Y1  - 2014
SN  - 978-94-007-6826-0 (Print) 978-94-007-6827-7 (Online)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6827-7_5
SP  - 101
EP  - 117
PB  - Springer
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Tran, Thanh Ngoc
A1  - Staat, Manfred
ED  - Onate, E.
T1  - Uncertain multimode failure and limit analysis of shells
T2  - 11th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM XI) ; 5th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM V) ; 6th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD VI) ; July 20-25, 2014, Barcelona
Y1  - 2014
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  -