Plastic design is used to take advantage of stress redistributions due to plastic strains exceeding the yield strain. Steel members that are designed plastically must have sufficient strain capacity in order to plastify at the spots of high stresses before fracture occurs. However, the minimum...

A central issue that is discussed in climate policy is the fear of owners of stocks of fossil hydrocarbon deposits that high CO2 taxes and bans on the combustion use of hydrocarbons will turn their stocks into stranded assets. They might react by extracting and selling their reserves today: a...