Exactly 80 years ago1), in one little known engineering journal, appeared a paper by a
young scientist–“Właściwa praca odkształcenia jako miara wytężenia materiału”[Specific …

1. Introduction. The mathematical theory of plasticity was inaugurated in 1871 by B. de Saint
Venant. The progress it has made since then is much smaller than that of the mathematical …

This book is an outcome of lectures that I began giving at the University of Illinois in 1925
and continued to give at Harvard University during most of the years since 1936. Naturally …

The yield point of a plastic-rigid body is defined as the moment when deformation first
becomes possible as the load is increased. The practical significance of the yield-point load …

F or a certain class of time-independent inelastic materials it may be shown that the final
state of stress following a class of stress histories may be related to the resultant strain …

Reissued in the Oxford Classic Texts in the Physical Sciences series, and first published in
1950, this important and classic book presents a mathematical theory of plastic materials …

n. = f Ue - f T u. (2) Page 1 1966] NOTES 171 A DEFORMATION BOUNDING THEOREM FOR
FLOW-LAW PLASTICITY* By PHILIP G. HODGE, JR. (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago …

This volume comprises two classic essays on the mathematical theories of elasticity and
plasticity by authorities in this area of engineering science. Undergraduate and graduate …

Considerably simplified models of macroscopic material behavior, such as the idealization
for metals of elastic-time independent plastic response with a yield (onset) criterion, have …

This book is an attempt to gather into one convenient semester-long format the fundamental
elements of an engineering approach to modeling the nonlinear stress-strain behavior of …