Abstract: An investigation of the ultimate strength of tubular joints has been carried out in order to develop an analytical method that provides a rational basis for the design of tubular joints. In this paper, the ultimate strength ...

Abstract: This paper describes a numerical method to determine the lower-bound solution of limit load of a rigid–perfectly plastic body obeying the von Mises yield criterion. The idea of this method is to construct a smoothed linear ...

Abstract: A detailed nonlinear finite-element analysis is undertaken of the wall pressures exerted by iron ore pellets in a full-scale silo experiment. The ring stiffeners on the exterior of the silo wall cause local small axisymmetric ...