Published paperLe, C.V., Nguyen-Xuan, H. and Nguyen-Dang, H. (2010) in which the pressure is equilibrated by corner loads only, ensuring that exact equilibrium relations associated with a uniform pressure can be obtained. Once the displacement or moment fields are approximated and the bound theorems applied, limit analysis becomes a problem of optimization. In this paper, the optimization problems are formulated in the form of a standard second-order cone programming which can be solved using highly efficient interior point solvers.The procedures are tested by applying it to several benchmark plate problems and are found good agreement between the present upper and lower bound solutions and results in the literature.Key words: Limit analysis, upper and lower bounds, displacement and equilibrium models, criterion of mean, second order cone programming