Plasticity for Engineers

Introduction; Specification of an ideal plastic material; Features of the behaviour of structures made of idealised elastic-plastic material; Theorems of plastic theory; Rotating discs; Torsion; Indentation problems; Introduction to slip-line fields; Circular plates under transverse loading; Metal-forming processes: Wire drawing and extrusion; Effects of changes in geometry; Wider scope of plastic theory and design; Appendices: The Mohr stress circle; Virtual work; Corresponding loads and deflections; Proportional loading; Notation for 3-D stress; Symbols, units and conversion factors; Answers to problems; Index.

This book focuses on the plastic property of materials, and the way in which structures made of such material behave under load. It is intended for civil, mechanical, electro-mechanical, marine, and aeronautical engineers for under-graduate or post-graduate courses or research, and professionals in industry. Professor Calladine, from long experience in teaching, research and industry, here delivers a readable and authoritative account of theory and applications. He presents the classical "perfect plasticity material" as a model of irreversible mechanical behaviour, using this perfect plasticity property to analyse a range of continuum structural problems and metal-forming processes relevant to engineering practice.

Civil, mechanical, electro-mechanical, marine, and aeronautical engineers