Abstract: In this article, limit load solutions for cracked elbows containing through-wall and part through-wall axial and circumferential cracks under internal pressure and in-plane bending loading are ...

Abstract: We present a scheme that utilizes one elastic stress field (no iterations) to compute lower bound limit load multipliers of structures that collapse through gross (or localized) plasticity. A ...

Abstract: This paper presents an extended stress-based forming limit curve (XSFLC) that can be used to predict the onset of necking in sheet metal loaded under non-proportional load paths, as well as ...