Plasticity and Beyond, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014 Microstructures, Crystal-Plasticity and Phase Transitions CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences Series, Vol. 550

The book presents the latest findings in experimental plasticity, crystal plasticity, phase transitions, advanced mathematical modeling of finite plasticity and multi-scale modeling. The associated algorithmic treatment is mainly based on finite element formulations for standard (local approach) as well as for non-standard (non-local approach) continua and for pure macroscopic as well as for directly coupled two-scale boundary value problems. Applications in the area of material design/processing are covered, ranging from grain boundary effects in polycrystals and phase transitions to deep-drawing of multiphase steels by directly taking into account random microstructures.

A discrete two-scale homogenization scheme of micro-macro-transition procedure: The FE2-method.- Variational modeling of microstructures in plasticity.- Micromorphic approach to crystal plasticity and phase transformation.- Formation of deformation substructures observed in ductile materials.- On scale-dependent crystal plasticity models.- Construction of statistically similar representative volume elements.

Latest findings in the field of advanced finite plasticity are described High number of 150 illustrations helps to understand the mathematical formulas Applications in the area of material design are covered