Advances in Continuum Mechanics

1 Fundamentals of Plasticity.- Some remarks on the phenomenological description of anisotropic behaviour of elasticplastic solids.- On the choice of integrity base of strain invariants for constitutive equations of isotropic materials.- Modification of the normality rule.- Plastic behaviour of saturated porous media.- Compressible plastic deformation of porous metals.- Application of the mathematical theory of plasticity for developing new methods of material testing.- Stochastic models for the plasticity of metals.- A concept for modelling and computation of finite inelastic deformations.- 2 Applied Plasticity.- A theoretical and experimental modeling of the mechanics of ductile fracture in metals.- A numerical Cosserat-approach predicting the statical stability of a plane frictionless block-structure, and its boundary conditions.- Evolution of anisotropy in sheet-steels submitted to off-axes large deformations.- On the theory of plane strain deformations of critical state models for sands.- On the quasi-analytical solutions of elasticplastic problems with nonlinear hardening.- Some mechanisms of a granular mass in a silo — model tests and a numerical Cosserat approach.- Experimental investigation on plastic deformation of stainless steel at low temperature.- Upper bound approach for prediction of occurence of ductile fracture in metal forming.- 3 Critical States, Failure and Fracture.- Plasticity-related critical states and failure criteria.- Physical argument for nonlocality of microcracking damage in a continuum.- Plastic localization in damaged materials.- Some remarks to the application of damage mechanics to low cycle fatigue.- A new integral equation approach for the curved crack problem in a circular plate.- Crack analysis in fibrous composites with partially plastified matrix materials.- On isolated point singularities in classical elasticity.- Localization within the framework of micropolar elasto-plasticity.- Bifurcation phenomena of compressible materials in the plane tension or compression test.- 4 Dynamic Elasto-Plasticity.- Impact load on elastic rod embedded in a rigid plastic medium.- Micromechanical foundations of dynamic plasticity with applications to damaging structures.- The elastic continuum with a cylindrical hole subjected to a moving time depending load.- Elastic-plastic wave propagation of combined generalized forces in a Timoshenko beam.- On the limit analysis of high speed forming processes in cold or hot conditions.- 5 Thermomechanics.- Thermomechanical simulation of some types of steady continuous casting processes.- Some aspects of nonlinear thermomechanical structure analysis.- On the thermodynamics of rate-independent, elastoplastic materials.- Some remarks on thermo-mechanical hysteresis.- Analysis of recovery stress and cyclic deformation in shape memory alloys.- 6 Rheology of Solids.- On a hybrid method to analyse viscoelastic problems.- Energetical aspects of polymer failure.- Creep behavior of SUS304 after cyclic plasticity.- The time history analysis of viscoelastic structures by mathematical programming.