Current research in the field of limit analysis is focussing on the development of numerical tools which are sufficiently efficient and robust to be used in engineering practice. This places demands on the numerical discretisation strategy adopted as well as on the mathematical programming tools applied, which are the key ingredients of a typical computational limit analysis procedure. In this research, the Element-Free Galerkin (EFG) discretisation strategy is used to approximate the displacement and moment fields in plate and slab problems, and second-order cone programming (SOCP) is...