We witness the advent of the age of parallel large-capacity computers and processors.
Parallel computers enter our life as the realization of objective processes in aspiration for …

The remarkable properties of shape memory alloys have facilitated their applications in
many areas of technology. The purpose of this paper is to present an overview of …

An accuracy analysis of a new class of integration algorithms for finite deformation
elastoplastic constitutive relations recently proposed by the authors, is carried out in this …

We present a class of constitutive updates for general viscoplastic solids including such
aspects of material behavior as finite elastic and plastic deformations, non-Newtonian …

An analysis of accuracy and stability of algorithms for the integration of elastoplastic
constitutive relations is carried out in this paper. Reference is made to a very general …

This book is a result of the authors' research and teaching in the field of finite element
nonlinear analysis over many years. In the research related to this book, our objective has …

Ratchetting is a kind of special cyclic deformation behavior of the materials and structures
subjected to a cyclic stressing with non-zero mean stress, and should be emphasized in the …

Abstract Analysis of large deformation of elastic-viscoplastic materials has been performed
in this paper using the finite element method with the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian …

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are materials that present, among other characteristics, the
capacity to undergo large permanent strains, and then, after a proper increase on the …

This paper shows new results concerning the Finite Element computations with complex
plastic and viscoplastic constitutive equations. The integration procedure then needs special …