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In addition to the well-established finite element method in recent years several optimization approaches have been developed concerning the yield-line theory. This paper presents a new systematical algorithm to predict initial yield-line configurations of arbitrary polygonal plates. It contributes a solution to the task of detecting yield-line patterns in advance of an optimization process. For this...