Publisher's Synopsis
This is a description of the theoretical foundations of inelasticity, its numerical formulation and implementation, constituting a representative sample of methodology currently used in inelastic deformation plasticity and viscoplasticity, convex optimization theory, integration algorithms for the constitutive equation of plasticity and viscoplasticity, the variational setting of boundary value problems and discretization by finite element methods. This should be of particular interest to researchers and graduates in various of branches of engineering, especially civil, aeronautical and mechanical, and applied mathematics.
