The hardness properties of materials are tracked from early history until the present time.
Emphasis is placed on the hardness test being a useful probe for determining the local …

A viscoplastic approach using the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method for obtaining local
mechanical response is utilized to study microstructure–property relationships in composite …

Since its advent in the 1960s, elastoplastic micromechanics has been confronted by
continuous challenges, as the classical incremental elastoplastic tangents are known to …

A numerical method based on the meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG) method is
presented for three-dimensional (3D) thermo-elastoplastic analysis of thick functionally …

A numerical method based on the extension of the variable material property method was
developed to obtain the elasto-plastic stress field in a functionally graded (FG) rotating disk …

This paper presents a method to determine the Drucker–Prager parameters of pressure-
dependant elastic-perfectly plastic polymeric materials by means of the depth-sensing …

This study concerns an elastic–plastic cohesive zone model for metal–ceramic interfaces
and the corresponding nonlinear finite element implementation for general boundary value …

For the first time, three-dimensional (3D) temperature-dependent thermo-elastoplastic
bending analysis of functionally graded (FG) skew plates subjected to combined thermal …

Abstract Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) are characterized by the distribution in
composition and structure gradually over volume, which were recently designed and …

Presented in this paper is a computational analysis of the mechanisms involved in plastic
deformation and fracture of a composite with coating under compressive and tensile loading …