Plasticity and Textures

This title unifies the main concepts of the physical and mathematical theory of plasticity. It presents the foundations of modern anisotropic plasticity, which link microscopic observations of texture formation with macroscopic properties of plastically anisotropic materials. Progress in metal-forming technologies has created the necessity to express the plastic yield process in terms of mathematics in order to apply computer methods. In addition new materials used in structural elements require a more detailed description of their physical structure. Amongst both metallurgists and mechanical designers, a strong tendency exists to formulate the scientific material in a common language. This book meets this request, although it has no ambitions to summarise the existing state of knowledge, only to combine the mathematical and physical approaches.