This book deals with the safety assessment of structures and structural components, possibly operating beyond the elastic limits under variable repeated thermo-

This collection of papers is a state of the art presentation of theories and methods related to the problem of the behaviour of mechanical structures under vari

The question whether a structure or a machine component can carry the applied loads, and with which margin of safety, or whether it will become unserviceable du

This book provides an overview of direct methods, such as limit and shakedown analysis, which are intended for avoiding cumbersome step-by-step calculations to

Articles in this book examine various materials and how to determine directly the limit state of a structure, in the sense of limit analysis and shakedown analy