Bounds to internal forces for elastic-plastic solids subjected to variable loads

Summary Considering an elastic-plastic workhardening solid with piecewise linear yield surfaces and a piecewise linear workhardening law, we give a method for constructing bounds to the internal forces and to the (hardened) yield stresses produced by the action of variable loads at any point of the body and at any time. The loading history is supposed to be unknown, but the loads range within a given domain.

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Sommario Considerando un solido elasto-plastico incrudente con superfici di plasticizzazione lineari a tratti e legge di incrudimento lineare a tratti, si fornisce un metodo per la costruzione di maggiorazioni sulle forze interne nonché sulle tensioni limite (incrudite) provocate dai carichi in un punto qualunque del solido ed in un qualunque istante. La storia di carico è incognita, ma i carichi variano all'interno di un dato dominio.

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The results presented in this paper were obtained in the course of a research project sponsored by the National (Italian) Research Council, C.N.R., PAdIS Committee.