Deformation and Failure in Metallic Materials

I. Constitutive Behaviour — Modelling and Numerics.- Numerical Treatment of Material Equations with Yield Surfaces.- Differential-Algebraic Equations in Elasto-Viscoplasticity.- Finite Element Analysis of Anisotropic Structures at Large Inelastic Deformations.- Use of the Elastic Predictor-Plastic Corrector Method for Integrating Finite Deformation Plasticity Laws.- A Model of Finite Strain Viscoplasticity with an Anisotropic Elastic Constitutive Law.- II. Constitutive Behaviour — Experiments and Verification.- Identification of Material Parameters for Inelastic Constitutive Models: Stochastic Simulation.- A Simple Model for Describing Yield Surface Evolution During Plastic Flow.- Damage and Failure of Ceramic Metal Composites.- III. Constitutive Behaviour — Mathematical Foundation.- Monotone Constitutive Equations in the Theory of Inelastic Behaviour of Metals — A Summary of Results.- Some Results Concerning the Mathematical Treatment of Finite Plasticity.- Initial Boundary Value Problems in Continuum Mechanics.- Justification of Homogenized Models for Viscoplastic Bodies with Microstructure.- IV. Damage and Fracture.- Models and Experiments Describing Deformation, Roughness and Damage in Metal Forming.- Remarks on the Use of Continuum Damage Models and on the Limitations of their Applicability in Ductile Fracture Mechanics.- Ductile Crack Growth in Metallic Foams.- The Principle of Generalized Energy Equivalence in Continuum Damage Mechanics.- Inde.