The past 20 years have seen substantial work on the modeling of ductile damage and
fracture. Several factors explain this interest.(i) There is a growing demand to provide tools …

Publisher Summary This chapter elaborates some closely related methods developed to
estimate the effective behavior of nonlinear composites with random microstructures. The …

Our work on rate-independent systems was stimulated by our search for evolutionary
material models for shape-memory alloys that are flexible enough to encompass nonlinear …

Recent developments in engineering and technology have brought about serious and
enlarged demands for reliability, safety and economy in wide range of fields such as …

The article is mainly concerned with time-independent plasticity in the range of cyclic
loadings. Three different approaches are considered for the description of kinematic …

The cyclic constitutive equations developed and used at ONERA and LMT-Cachan are
presented in detail in terms of a hierarchy of various models. Both the time-independent and …

The aim of Plasticity Theory is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the contemporary
state of knowledge in basic plasticity theory and to its applications. It treats several areas not …

A constitutive model for anisotropic damage is developed to describe the elastic-brittle
behavior of fiber-reinforced composites. The main objective of the paper focuses on the …

The vitality of the cardiovascular system, which consists of the heart, vas culature, and blood,
depends on its response to a host of complex stimuli, including biological, chemical …

The onset of dynamic recrystallization is treated in terms of a model based on the principles
of irreversible thermodynamics. In the analysis, the initiation of dynamic recrystallization is …