Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Materials

 

SPECIAL ISSUE: PROCEEDINGS OF THE SECOND EUROCONFERENCE AND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATERIAL INSTABILITIES DEFORMATION AND FRACTURE

31 August – 4 September 1997

AUT, Thessaloniki, Greece

 

VOLUME 11, NOS. 1-3, 2000

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

On the Bending and Stability Problems for Shape Memory Materials

T.M. Atanackovic ............ 1

 

Size Effect in Compression and Tensile Quasibrittle Fracture

Z.P. Bazant ..................... 7

 

Strain-Rate Softening in Amorphous Metallic Alloys

V.Z. Bengus, E.D. Tabachnikova and A.S. Bakai ....................... 13

 

On Dissipation and Stability of Grains’ Boundaries in Polycrystals

M. Brocato, A. Ehrlacher and P. Tamagny ...................... 17

 

Anomalous and Irregular Mechanical Behavior in Heterogeneous Materials: Snap-Back Instabilities and Fractal Cracking

A. Carpinteri and G. Ferro ................. 23

 

Elastic Wave Propagation in Damaged Materials and Structure Element

V.I. Erofeyev and S.A. Monichev ............................. 31

 

Materials Instabilities and Image Segmentation: New Trends in PDES and in the Calculus of Variations

I. Fonseca .......................37

 

Strain Localization Phenomena in Generalized Single Crystal Plasticity

S. Forest ........................ 45

 

Thermodynamically Consistent For­mulation of Finite Deformation Anisotropic Plasticity Laws

O. Hauser and Ch. Tsakmakis ...................... 51

 

The Effect of Kinematic Hardening on Spherical Indentation

N. Huber and Ch. Tsakmakis ........................ 55

 

TiN Thin Films: Defect Generation, Residual Stresses and Hardness

L. Hultman and J.-E. Sundgren ......................... 59

 

Seismic Damage Analysis of Reinforced Concrete Building Considering Member Fracture

D. Isobe ...................... 63

 

Energy Dissipated in Elastic-Plastic and Elastic-Viscoplastic Solids

W. Jahsohn, B. Ritter and Ch. Tsakmakis ...................... 69

 

On Noeter’s Theorem in Nonlinear Continua

J. Jaric ...................... 73

 

Damage During Multiaxial Deformation of Superplastic 5083-AA

M.A. Khaleel, M.T. Smith and E.A. Nyberg ...................... 79

 

Densification in Fused Silica and Other Glasses, As a Material Instability

J.C. Lambropoulo ..................... 87

 

Microstructural and Micromechanical Instabilities in Materials

J.C.M. Li ...................... 95

 

Relativistic Approach to Continuum Physics

G. Lianis ..................... 105

 

A Model for Hydride-Induced Em­brittlement in Zirconium-Based Alloys

A.R. Massih and D. Wappling ................... 121

 

Thermomechanics of Heterogeneous Materials with Weakly Nonlocal Microstructure

G.A. Maugin ..................... 129

 

Necking of Stretched Sheets Modelled by a 2-D Nonlocal Plasticity Model

L.P. Mikkelsen ...................... 141

 

Deformation Behavior of Nanostructured Metals

W.W. Milligan and E.C. Aifantis .................... 147

 

The Surface Diffusion and the Fracture of Surface

N. Morozov and M. Paukshto ...................... 153

 

Low and High Temperature Limits of Plastic Instabilities of CU-Al Polycrystals

A. Nortmann, Ch. Schwink and H. Neuhauser ...................... 157

 

Microstructural Modeling of Creep Fracture in Polycrystalline Materials

P. Onck and E. van der Giessen ...................... 165

 

Scale Levels of Shear Instability in Solids Under Loading

V.E. Panin .................... 171

 

Dynamics of Collapse of a Confined Bose Gas

L.P. Pitaevskii .................... 177

 

Instability of Elastic Material Boundary Under Surface Diffusion

A.V. Pitkin ...................... 181

 

The Bridged Crack in Brittle Composite Material

N.V. Ponikarov ...................... 187

 

Dynamic Shear-Dominated, Supersonic Crack Growth in Bimaterial and Layered Systems and its Relationship to Earthquake Rupture

A.J. Rosakis, O. Samudrala and R.P. Singh ...................... 191

 

Does the Gurson-Tvergaard Material Model Satisfy the Second Law of Thermodynamics?

K. Santaoja and H. Talja ................. 205

 

Self-Organization, Dislocation-Point-Defect Interactions, and Instabilities in Fatigue

A. Seeger ...................... 211

 

Higher Gradient Single Crystal Plasticity Based on the Continuum Theory of Dislocation

P. Steinmann ...................... 213

 

Stability Problem of Damage Zone Propagation in Front of the Crack for DCB Specimen of Plain Concrete

D. Sumarac .................... 221

 

Regularization of Strain Softening Models for Geomaterials

I. Vardoulakis ...................... 227

 

Dynamic Perturbation of a Propagating Crack

J.R. Willis ...................... 237

 

Some Remarks on the Classification of Plastic Instabilities

M. Zaiser and M. Glazov ............................ 243

 

A 3D Dislocation Simulation Model for Plastic Deformation and Instabilities in Single Crystals

H.M. Zbib, M. Rhee, J.P. Hirth and T.D. de la Rubia ....................... 251

 

Local Plasticity of CU-Al-Polycrystals Investigated by in situ Observations and FEM Simulations

A. Ziegenbaum, H. Neuhauser, J. Thesing, R. Ritter, H. Wittich and E. Steck ................. 257

 

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