Thermomechanics of Viscoplasticity Fundamentals and Applications /

• Main Author: Micunovic, Milan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics, 20
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mathematical models.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Continuum mechanics.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

This book contains geometrical and thermodynamical issues indispensable for development of a rational theory of thermoviscoplasticity. Geometrical picture of coupled thermomagnetomechanical histories of damaged solids is built both by means of Kroener's incompatibility approach as well by Eshel...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical and Experimental Aspects
• Physical and Geometrical Background
• Crystalline Materials with Thermo-inelastic Memory
• Normality Rule? Plastic Work Extremals and Related Topics
• Thermodynamics of Inelasticity
• Some Multiaxial Viscoplastic Experiments: Relation to Tensor Functions
• Some General Problems
• Viscoplasticity of Ferromagnetics
• Self-Consistent Method and Quasi-Rate-Dependent Polycrystals
• Inelastic Micromorphic Polycrystals
• Applications of the Theory
• Plastic Wave Propagation in Hopkinson Bar
• Ratchetting Phenomenon at Low Strain Rates for AISI
• Stress and Strain Measures for Orthotropic Metals at Large Nonproportional Plastic Strain Histories.