Plasticity

"The book is unique in its broad consideration of analytical and numerical aspects of plasticity. ... The book is well written and carefully presented overall. It presents a wealth of useful material otherwise absent from other plasticity books. It exposes both the interested mechanician and the interested mathematician to mathematical problems in plasticity in a unified manner, albeit to be pursued in their own way." (Anurag Gupta, SIAM Review, Vol. 58 (4), December, 2016)

• Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.-Preliminaries.- Continuum Mechanics and Linearized Elasticity.- Elastoplastic Media.- The Plastic Flow Law in a Convex-Analytic Setting.- Basics of Functional Analysis and Function Spaces.- Variational Equations and Inequalities.- The Primal Variational Problem of Elastoplasticity.- The Dual Variational Problem of Classical Elastoplasticity.- Introduction to Finite Element Analysis.- Approximation of Variational Problems.- Approximations of the Abstract Problem.- Numerical Analysis of the Primal Problem.- References.- Index.-