Publisher's Synopsis
From the contents:The study of plastic constitutive relations in China. -Fundamental issues in the representation of elastic plasticbehaviour.- Two approaches to the finite elasto-plasticity.- Constitutive equation and plastic spin for finitedeformation. - Thermodynamically consistent constitutivelaws at large deformations of solid bodies. - A constitutivetheory in thermoplasticity at finite deformation. -Constitutive relations for creep damage under multi-axialnon-proportional loading. - New bounds for polycrystallinematerials. - Constitutive model of cyclic plasticity forfinite deformation. - A statistical formulation ofheterogeneous creep behavior if polycrystals. - Someadvances in physical theory of plasticity. - Inclusionsliding induced by finite eigenstrain. - Meso-deformationand constitutive relations of sliding polycrystal. -Effects of initial and induced inhomogeneities on theelasto-plastic behaviour of polycrystals. - A comparison ofmicromechanically based plasticity models. - Theory ofplastic deformation of homogeneous and composite materialsunder small and large strain. - Micromechanics modellingforthe constitutive behavior of polycrystalline shape memoryalloys. - Elastic-plastic behavior of two-phase material.
