“…Horne and Merchant, 1965;Hwan, 1997;Leu, 2003;Leu, 2005;Leu and Chen, 2006;Corradi and Panzeri, 2004;Seitzberger and Rammerstorfer, 1999;Yang, 1993;Huh et al, 1999;Huh et al, 2001;Kim and Huh, 2006;Leu, 2007) extended the conventional limit analysis concept to isotropic strain hardening materials instead of perfectly plastic ones, and small deformations to large ones. The idea of sequential limit analysis considers that the plastic collapse evolution is a sequence of conventional limit analyses with a yield stress updated at each one.…”