MECHENG 734
Theory of Plasticity
2027
Topics
- Yield Criteria for ductile isotropic metals
- Invariants of a second order tensor
- Representative stress and strain
- Flow Rule (plastic stress/strain relationships
- Fundamental plasticity theory leading
- Application of these principles to a rigid
- Incompressible
- Non-hardening
- Rate-insensitive solid
- Plane strain upper
- Lower bound theorems
- Slip line field analysis
- More advanced upper bound method
- Theory of finite strain
Readings
- Elastic and Inelastic Stress Analysis by Irving H. Shames and Francis A. Cazzarelli (Second edition) - Mainly Chapter 8 of the book (and some material from the earlier chapters may be covered).
- Plasticity – Theory and application by A. Mendelson
- Metal forming by W. H. Hosford and R. M. Cadell
- Fundamentals of Metal Forming by R. H. Wagoner and J-L. Chenot