This handbook covers a number of the more recent developments regarding the mechanics of deforming solids. In recent years, much progress has been reported in the wide-ranging mechanical behaviour of solids under stress. Here the term stress in a solid arises from a number of external actions including direct tension, compression, pressure, bending, shear and torsion. Many of the topics covered are yet to find their way into the standard texts, which are often restricted to isotropic elasticity and plasticity.

In this two-volume work, what might previously have been regarded as disparate, 'specialist' topics have been placed within a wider mechanics arena to emphasise their common, underlying principles. That arena is taken generally as one of inelasticity for dealing with the essential mechanics of these phenomena. Therein, this text brings together theory, experimental data, key references, examples and exercises, particularly those that relate to the important advances in the subject, both old and new. The presentation of material featured in this way anticipates that in their turn these additional topics will be recognised as essential material for study among engineers, physicists and applied mathematicians at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Contents:

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  Volume 1: Plasticity, Creep and Viscous Deformation:

  
  
  
  
  • Yield and Strength Criteria
  
  
  • Equivalence in Flow Curves
  
  
  • Plasticity Theory
  
  
  • Anisotropic Hardening
  
  
  • Viscoelasticity
  
  
  • Creep of Metals
  
  
  • Viscoplasticity
  
  
  • Index
  
  
  
  


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  Volume 2: Finite and Cyclic Deformation; Structural Applications:

  
  
  
  
  • Finite Deformation
  
  
  • Cyclic Deformation
  
  
  • Plastic Collapse of Structures
  
  
  • Plastic Instability
  
  
  • Sheet Metal Forming
  
  
  • Fibre Reinforced Concrete
  
  
  • Index
  
  
  
  

Readership: This handbook is intended for an academic readership and is designed for researchers, engineers and advanced undergraduate, graduate and post-graduate students studying or dealing with inelastic solids and/or classical mechanics.

Key Features:

• A hybrid of reference work and textbook designed to provide a detailed overview while providing worked examples


• Extremely comprehensive


• Chapters flow in sequence and develop in complexity from the starting chapter to the conclusion