“…The idea in the Riks' method is to add a constraint equation to the nonlinear system, which would limit both the variations in load level and displacements (figure 1). Several variants were proposed to the original algorithm: to name just a few, we mention the line-search (Crisfield, 1983), local arc-length (Alfano and Crisfield, 2003), local arc-length for strain softening (De Borst, 1987;May and Duan, 1997), orthogonal methods (Forde and Stiemer, 1987), asymptoticnumerical methods based on Pade approximants (Cochelin et al, 1994;Elhage-Hussein et al, 2000;Hamdaoui et al, 2016), dissipation-based arc-length (Gutierrez, 2004;Verhoosel et al, 2009;Singh et al, 2016;May et al, 2016) and kinetic damping (Lee et al, 2011).…”