Foreword

Preface

Finite element Limit Analysis and porous Mises-Schleicher material; Franck Pastor, Joseph Pastor and Djimedo Kondo

Limit Analysis: A Layered Approach for Composite Laminates; Aurora Angela Pisano, Paolo Fuschi, Dario De Domenico

Shakedown analysis of kinematically hardening structures in n-dimensional loading spaces; J.-W. Simon

Computation of bounds for anchor problems in limit analysis and decomposition techniques; J. J. Munoz, N. Rabiei , A. Lyamin, and A. Huerta

Shakedown analysis of Reissner-Mindlin plates using the edge-based smoothed finite element method; Thanh Ng c Tr n and M. Staat

Progress in plastic design of composites; Min Chen, Abdelkader Hachemi

The Residual Stress Decomposition Method (RSDM): A novel direct method to predict cyclic elastoplastic states; Konstantinos V. Spiliopoulos and Konstantinos D. Panagiotou

Use of layout optimization to solve large-scale limit analysis and design problems; Matthew Gilbert, Colin Smith, Samuel Hawksbee and Andrew Tyas

Macroscopic modeling of porous non associated frictional materials; Long Cheng, Gery de Saxce and Djimedo Kondo

Direct evaluation of the post-buckling behavior of slender structures through a numerical asymptotic formulation; Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Bilotta, Antonio Madeo and Raffaele Casciaro

A Quasi-Periodic Approximation based Model Reduction for Limit Analysis of Micropile Groups; Zied Kammoun, Joseph Pastor and Hichem Smaoui

The Anderson-Bishop Problem - Thermal Ratchetting of a Polycrystalline Metals; A.R.S. Ponter and A.C.F. Cocks

Recent development and application of the Linear Matching Method for design limits in plasticity and creep: an overview; Haofeng Chen and Weihang Chen