Abstract: The aim of this paper is to extend the classical Gurson (1977) analysis of a hollow rigid ideal-plastic sphere loaded axisymmetrically to an ellipsoidal volume containing a confocal oblate ...

Abstract: Predictions of creep rupture of a reactor pressure vessel in a severe hypothetical accident needs to accurately take into account the interactions between creep and damage phenomena. This paper ...

Abstract: This paper presents the state of the art and the progress made in the numerical simulation of the stress state in a complex multi-material structure, using not only sophisticated finite element ...