Abstract: An explicit function of material parameter β1 is proposed to accommodate the strain-rate effect in the endochronic theory of viscoplasticity developed by Valanis. The strain-rate effects are ...

Abstract: The main purpose of this paper is to present a general (purely mechanical) constrained theory of finitely deforming elastic-plastic materials. Our development is based on a strain-space formulation ...

Abstract: End effects or displacements and stresses of a self-equilibrated state in an inhomogeneous, anisotropic cylinder are represented by eigendata extracted from an algebraic eigensystem. Such states ...

Abstract: Cross-sectional properties of a prismatic inhomogeneous, anisotropic cylinder are determined from Saint-Venant solutions for extension-bending-torsion and flexure, whose method of construction was ...

Abstract: In this paper, the first in a series of three, a procedure based on semi-analytical finite elements is presented for constructing Saint-Venant solutions for extension, bending, torsion, and ...