Direct Methods for Limit State Assessment of Structures (Cancelled)
Invited Lecturers
- Edmund Christiansen (University of South. Denmark, Odense M, Denmark)
4 lectures on:
Modelling and computation in limit analysis. Discretization by the FEM. Formulation and interpretation of the discrete problem. Duality examplified with LP. Second order cone programming as a tool for modelling and computation. Examples of yield conditions and boundary conditions. Modelling and computation in limit analysis.- Giuseppe Cocchetti (Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy)
6 lectures on:
Limit and shakedown analysis for poroplastic media. Limit and deformation analysis combined as a direct method for the safety factor evaluation allowing for softening constitutive behaviour. Computational techniques and numerical examples.- Kurt Marti (Univ. der Bundeswehr, Neubiberg/Muenchen, Germany)
6 lectures on:
Limit load and shakedown analysis under stochastic uncertainty. State functions for the reliability analysis of LA and SA problems. Computation of robust maximum load factors by stochastic optimization methods. Approximation techniques for solving stochastic optimization problems in LA and SA. Sensitivity analysis of the maximum load factors with respect to variations of the model parameters.- Joseph Pastor (Université de Savoie, Le Bourget du Lac, France)
2 lectures on:
Limit analysis and conic programming. Periodic and “effective” approach in homogenization. Interior point convex programming. Domain decomposition and limit analysis. Applications.- Alan Robert S. Ponter (The University of Leicester, Leicester, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Foundations of Direct Methods, Linear Matching Methods for limit analysis and shakedown. Extensions to high temperature material behaviour and in excess of shakedown. Applications to high temperature Life assessment methods in the Power Industry. Implementation into the UK life assessment method R5.- Dieter Weichert (R.W.T.H. Aachen, Aachen, Germany)
5 lectures on:
Foundations of limit and shakedown analysis. Extensions of classical theorems. Multi-physics problems. Applications to thin-walled structures and composites. Numerical examples.- Hai-Sui Yu (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, Great Britain)
6 lectures on:
Shakedown and limit analysis in geotechnics and pavement design. Upper and lower bound methods. Shakedown of rolling with line and point contact. Linear and non-linear programming in shakedown and limit analysis.