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Plasticity and failure behavior of solids. Memorial volume dedicated to the late Professor Yuriy Nickolaevich Rabotnov. (English) Zbl 0722.73030

Fatigue and Fracture, 3. Dordrecht etc.: Kluwer Academic Publishers. xiv, 214 p. Dfl. 195.00; £72.50; $ 115.00 (1990).
[The articles of this volume will not be indexed individually.]
As D. C. Drucker remarks in the first contributed paper of this stimulating book, a key physical aspect of plasticity is irreversibility and one of the goals of any mathematical and/or phenomenological model of plasticity is its applicability, in a sufficiently simple way, to the design of rather complicate structures.
This volume reassembles nine others contributions from leading Soviet and American researchers whose personal views on plasticity and failure of solids are quite different, thus making this volume more attractive. The contributions range from micro-macro modelling to creep theories in metal forming, to energy balance for elastoplastic fracture, to stability of materials and structures and to failure and discontinuities.
A further interesting feature of this volume is that it introduces western readers to Soviet results not always easily accessible.

MSC:

74C99 Plastic materials, materials of stress-rate and internal-variable type
74R99 Fracture and damage
00B25 Proceedings of conferences of miscellaneous specific interest
74-06 Proceedings, conferences, collections, etc. pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids
74C15 Large-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including nonlinear plasticity)
74C20 Large-strain, rate-dependent theories of plasticity
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