Research Article

Autotuning of Isotropic Hardening Constitutive Models on Real Steel Buckling Data with Finite Element Based Multistart Global Optimisation on Parallel Computers

Figure 1

Schematic of the buckling FE model. The bar is a circular cylinder of gauge length and of diameter . Side surface nodes in region A are attached to a spring of stiffness . Prescribed axial displacement is applied to all side surface nodes in region B.