Plasticity: A Treatise on Finite Deformation of Heterogeneous Inelastic Materials (Cambridge Monographs on Mechanics)

The only book that seamlessly integrates rigorous mathematical description of finite deformations with mechanisms-based micromechanics. "Providing a basic foundation for advanced graduate study and research in the mechanics of solids, this treatise contains a systematic development of the fundamentals of finite inelastic deformations of heterogeneous materials. The book combines the mathematical rigor of solid mechanics with the physics-based micro-structural understanding of materials science, to present a coherent picture of finite inelastic deformation of single- and poly-crystal metals over broad ranges of strain rates and temperatures. It also includes a similarly rigorous and experimentally based development of the quasi-static deformation of cohesionless granular materials that support the applied loads through contract friction."--BOOK JACKET Providing a basic foundation for advanced graduate study and research in the mechanics of solids, this treatise contains a systematic development of the fundamentals of finite inelastic deformations of heterogeneous materials. The book combines the mathematical rigour of solid mechanics with the physics-based micro-structural understanding of the material science, to present a coherent picture of finite inelastic deformation of single and polycrystalline metals, over broad ranges of strain rates and temperatures. It also includes a .. For simplicity, a background fixed rectangular Cartesian coordinate system is used; see Figure 1.1.1.