Inelastic Behavior of Materials and Structures Under Monotonic and Cyclic Loading

This book presents studies on the inelastic behavior of materials and structures under monotonic and cyclic loads. It focuses on the description of new effects like purely thermal cycles or cases of non-trivial damages. The various models are based on different approaches and methods and scaling aspects are taken into account. In addition to purely phenomenological models, the book also presents mechanisms-based approaches. It includes contributions written by leading authors from a host of different countries.

Experiments and numerical simulations on stress-state-dependence of ductile damage criteria.- Constitutive models for creep-damage behavior at quasi-static and cyclic loading.- Constitutive modeling of dissipative phenomena in austenitic metastable steels at cryogenic temperatures.- Modeling of continuous damage deactivation accompanying low cycle fatigue of Al-2024 under complex loading.-  Creep, plasticity, and fatigue of single crystal superalloy.  Physics-based life prediction for turbine components in severe operating environments.- Computational multiscale modeling of nickel-based superalloys containing gamma-gamma’ precipitates.- Homogenized elastic-viscoplastic behavior of thick perforated plates with pore pressure: analysis and modeling.- Ratchetting of snake skin: experiments and cyclic viscoelastic-plastic constitutive model.- Time-temperature-stress equivalence for the long term mechanical properties of polymeric material.