Generalized Plasticity

• Main Authors: Yu, Mao-Hong (Author), Ma, Guo-Wei (Author), Qiang, Hong-Fu (Author), Zhang, Yong-Qiang (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Continuum mechanics.; Structural mechanics.; Structural materials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Structural Mechanics.; Structural Materials.

Generalized Plasticity deals with the plasticity of materials and structures. It is an expansion of the "Unified Strength Theory to Plasticity Theory", leading to a unified treatment of metal plasticity and plasticity of geomaterials, generally. It includes the metal plasticity for Tresca...

Table of Contents:

• Stress Space and Stress State
• Basic Characteristics of Yield of Materials under Complex Stress
• Unified Strength Theory and Its Material Parameters
• Reasonable Choice of a Yield Function
• Elasto-plastic Constitutive Relations
• Concrete Plasticity
• Twin-Shear Slip-Line Field for Plane Strain Problem
• Unified Slip-Line Field Theory for Plane Strain Problem
• Twin-Shear Characteristics Field for Plane Stress Problem
• Unified Characteristics Field Theory for Plane Stress Problem
• Unified Characteristics Line Theory for Spatial Axisymmetric Problem
• Unified Solution of Plastic Zones at Crack Tip under Small Scale Yielding
• Unified Fracture Criter ion for Mixed Mode Crack Initiation and Fatigue Crack Growth
• Limit Load and Shakedown Load of Pressure Vessel.