A summary of progress to date on the plastic collapse program 'plash' (IM-EST-030)

PLASH is a non-linear structural analysis program for predicting the elastic/plastic and collapse behaviour of three dimensional structures under quasi-static loading conditions. A development version of the program - based on work done originally at Cranfield (1,2) - was obtained from Atkins R&D, Epsom in 1981. This note gives...