THREE DIMENSIONAL ELASTO-PASTIC BEHAVIOUR OF STEEL STRUCTURES : (Part-III) Three Dimensional Elasto-Plastic Analysis (II)

An analysis of three-dimensional elasto-plastic sinusoidal contact

Researchers have developedmanymodels to simulate the elasto-plastic contact of spheres. However, there does not appear to exist a closed-form analytical model for elasto-plastic three-dimensional sinusoidal contact. This work uses a finite element model (FEM) to characterize elasto-plastic sinusoidal contact. Although at initial contact the sphere and sinusoidal case are very similar and can bo...

Dynamic Analysis of Three Dimensional Asymmetric Isolated Structures

Dynamic Analysis of Three Dimensional Asymmetric Isolated Structures

Elasto-Thermodiffusive Response in a Two-Dimensional Transversely Isotropic Medium

The present article investigates the elasto-thermodiffusive interactions in a transversely isotropic elastic medium in the context of thermoelasticity with one relaxation time parameter and two relation time parameters. The resulting non-dimensional coupled equations are applied to a specific problem of a half-space in which the surface is free of tractions and is subjected to time-dependent th...

Shape Optimization of Elasto-plastic Structures with Shakedown Constraints

An integrated approach for all necessary variations within direct analysis, variational design sensitivity analysis and shakedown analysis based on Melan’s static shakedown theorem for linear unlimited kinematic hardening material behavior is formulated. Remarks on the computer implementation and numerical examples show the efficiency of the proposed formulation. Important effects of shakedown ...