Limit and shakedown analyses allowing for geometric effects and physical instability

准确的结构安全评估是对结构进行安全、经济有效的设计和管理的基本要求。在这方面，了解几何效应和物理不稳定性对结构破坏行为的影响是至关重要的，也是具有挑战性的。该项目旨在通过开发创新的方法来实现这一点，在这些方法中，扩展了经典的、所谓的极限和安定分析，以纳入这些影响。该项目将大大提高澳大利亚对老化基础设施的诊断能力，并有可能通过这一新开发的计算能力，实现新材料向新兴技术的快速过渡。

The accurate safety assessment of structures is a fundamental requirement for their safe and cost effective design and management. In this respect, understanding the implications of geometric effects and physical instability on the failure behaviour of structures is a vital and challenging one. This project aims at achieving this by developing innovative approaches in which the classical, so-called, limit and shakedown, analyses are extended to incorporate these effects. The project will result in a significant advance in Australia's capability for enhanced diagnosis of its aging infrastructure and potentially also, through this newly developed computational ability, for the rapid transition of new materials to emerging technologies.