Description
Book SynopsisThis book seeks to strengthen the foundations of continuum plasticity theory, emphasizing a unifying perspective grounded in the fundamental notion of material symmetry.
Trade ReviewA very-well conceived book on plasticity theory, with the accent on its fundamentals regarding physical aspects of the subject and its mathematical treatment in the framework of modern continuum mechanics. I strongly and enthusiastically recommend the book. * Vlado A. Lubarda, University of California, San Diego *
Any student in mechanics who wants to understand the subject in a concise and effective way will find this book extremely useful. It will become a fundamental textbook in the following decades. * Francesco Dell'Isola, Università dell'Aquila, Italy *
Table of Contents1: Preliminaries 2: Brief resumé of nonlinear elasticity theory 3: A primer on tensor analysis in three-dimensional space 4: Deformation and stress in convected coordinates 5: Elastic and plastic deformations 6: Energy, stress, dissipation and plastic evolution 7: Isotropy 8: Small-deformation theory 9: Strain hardening, rate sensitivity and gradient plasticity Solutions to selected problems
