Abstract: The kinematic method is applied to study the shakedown behavior of certain bar structures subjected to variable loads. For trusses, the possible elastic instability of a thin bar in compression ...

Abstract: A kinematic method is developed to determine the shakedown limits of elastic-perfectly plastic steel-reinforced concrete beams under quasi-static and dynamic cyclic loads. This procedure, like the respective kinematic ...

Abstract: AbstractMechanical behavior of the spherically symmetric inclusion composites (two- and three-dimensional) with stress interface is studied. From the three-point correlation variational principle for elasticity of the ...