Plasticity of Metals: Experiments, Models, Computation

Preface. 1. Correlation Between Energy and Mechanical Quantities of Face--Centred Cubic Metals, Cold--Worked and Softened to Different States (Lothar Kaps and Frank Haebetaner). 2. Material State after Uni-- and Biaxial Cyclic Deformation (W. Gieseke, et al.). 3. Plasticity of Metals and Life Prediction in the Range of Low--cycle Fatigue: Description of Deformation Behaviour and Creep--Fatigue Interaction (K. Rie, et al.). 4. Development and Application of Constitutive Models for the Plasticity of Metals (E. Steck, et al.). 5. On the Physical Parameters Governing the Flow Stress of Solid Solutions in a Wide Range of Temperatures (C. Schwink and A. Nortmann). 6. Inhomogeneity and Instability of Plastic Flow in Cu--Based Alloys (H. Neuhauser). 7. The Influence of Large Torsional Prestrain on the Texture Development and Yield Surfaces of Polycrystals (D. Besdo and N. Wellerdick--Wojtaski). 8. Parameter Identification of Inelastic Deformation Laws Analysing Inhomogeneous Stress--Strain States (R. Kreibetaig, et al.). 9. Development and Improvement of Unified Models and Applications to Structural Analysis (H. Ahrens, et al.). 10. On the behaviour of Mid Steel Fe 510 under Complex Cyclic Loading (U. Peil, et al.). 11. Theoretical and Computational Shakedown Analysis of Non--Linear Kinematic Hardening Material and Transition to Ductile Fracture (E. Stein, et al.). 12. Parameter Identification for Inelastic Constitutive Equations Based on Uniform and Non--Uniform Stress and Strain Distributions (R. Mahnken and E. Stein). 13. Experimental Determination of Deformation-- and Strain Fields by Optical Measuring Methods (R. Ritter and H. Friebe). 14. Surface--Deformation Fields from Grating Pictures Using Image Processing and Photogrammetry (K. Andersen). 15. Experimental and Numerical Analysis of the Inelastic Postbuckling Behaviour of Shear--Loaded Aluminium Panels (H. Kossira and G. Arnst). 16. Consideration of Inhomogeneties in the Application of Deformation Models, Describing the Inelastic Behaviour of Welded Joints (H. Wohfahrt and D. Brinkmann). Bibliography.