IUTAM Symposium on Anisotropy, Inhomogeneity and Nonlinearity in Solid Mechanics: Proceedings of the IUTAM-ISIMM Symposium held in Nottingham, U.K., 30 August – 3 September 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Optimization of Direct Biaxial Testing of Anisotropic Materials....Pages 3-18
Anisotropy and Proper States of Materials....Pages 19-24
Characterising a 2D Elasticity Tensor by Two Orientation Distribution Functions....Pages 25-30
The Mirror Symmetries of Anisotropic Elasticity....Pages 31-36
Integrity Bases for a Fourth-Rank Tensor....Pages 37-42
On Anisotropy at the Actual Configuration and the Adequate Formulation of a Free Energy Function....Pages 43-50
A Continuum Model for Induced Anisotropy with Application to Natural Ice....Pages 51-56
On the Roles of Initial and Induced Anisotropies....Pages 57-62
Higher Grade Material Structures....Pages 63-68
Local Atomic Level Elastic Moduli of Surface Regions....Pages 69-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Description of Finite Plastic Deformations in Single Crystals by Material Isomorphisms....Pages 77-90
Modelling of Textured Materials....Pages 91-96
Sensitivity Analysis of Fibre-Reinforced Composites with Interphase Unilateral Constraints....Pages 97-102
Effective Local Properties for Modelling of Functionally Graded Composite Materials....Pages 103-108
A Dislocation Solution for a Nonlinear Material with a Yield Stress....Pages 109-114
The Application of Hyperelastic and Rate Dependent Models to the Multiaxial Deformation of Polymers....Pages 115-120
Squeezing Flow of Fibre-Reinforced Viscoelastic Composites....Pages 121-126
Nonlinear Thermo-Visco-Elastic Behaviour....Pages 127-132
Damped Periodic Fluctuations in Certain Smectic Liquid Crystals....Pages 133-138
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Dynamic Flow Localization in Plane-Strain Blocks Obeying a Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Constitutive Equation....Pages 141-148
Front Matter....Pages 139-139
Numerical and Experimental Assessment of the Size and Boundary Conditions Effects for the Overall Properties of Granular Composite Bodies Smaller than the Representative Volume....Pages 149-154
Out-of-Plane Deformation in Laminated Sheet Metals....Pages 155-160
A New Model of Nonlinear Dynamic Creep....Pages 161-166
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Double-Shearing Theory for Dilatant Granular Materials....Pages 169-182
Equations Governing Plane Plastic Deformation in Anisotropic Materials....Pages 183-190
Bounds for the Effective Yield Surface of Polycrystals....Pages 191-200
Analysis of the Influence of Anisotropy Effects on Adiabatic Shear Band Localization Phenomena....Pages 201-210
An Analytical Investigation of Inhomogeneous Straining, Subgrain Formation, and the Initiation of Microshear Bands in Bicrystals....Pages 211-216
On the Stability of Shear Bands....Pages 217-222
Phase Inhomogeneities in Deformed Superalloy Single Crystals: Numerical Estimates....Pages 223-228
Material Symmetry in Solid Crystals....Pages 229-234
On the Volume Changes of Granular Materials and Their Consequences for Plasticity Theory....Pages 235-240
Dynamic Deformations in the Theory of Fluid-Saturated Porous Solid Materials....Pages 241-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Fracturing in Anisotropic Solids....Pages 249-262
Analysis of Anomalous Microcrack Growth in a Brittle Porous Material Prior to Compression Failure....Pages 263-268
Influence of Subcritical Propagation of Initial Flaws on the Reliability of Brittle Structures....Pages 269-274
Effect of Dynamic Strain Ageing and Portevin-Le-Chatelier Instabilities on the Tearing Failure of 2091 Al-Li Sheets....Pages 275-280
Modelling of Semi-Brittle Ceramics Behaviour under a Quasi-Static Deformation Process....Pages 281-286
Interactions between Cracks and Inclusions....Pages 287-292
Multi-Fracture Processes in Ceramic Composites....Pages 293-298
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
Three-Dimensional Buckling Analysis of Orthotropic Cylinders Subjected to Thermo-Mechanical Loading....Pages 299-304
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
3-D Elastodynamic Green’s Functions for BEM Applications to Anisotropic Solids....Pages 307-320
Green’s Functions for an Anisotropic Elliptic Inclusion under Antiplane Deformations....Pages 321-326
Boundary Layer Problem in a Piezoelectric Composite....Pages 327-332
Relaxed Energy Densities for Anisotropic Membranes....Pages 333-338
Qualitative Estimates for Laminate-Like Elastic Materials....Pages 339-344
Configurational Forces and Coherent Phase-Transition Fronts in Thermoelastic Solids....Pages 345-350
The Formulation of Constitutive Equations for Anisotropic Materials with Different Behaviour in Tension and Compression....Pages 351-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
An Application of the IFRM Theory to Evaluation of Interlaminar Shear Stresses in a Fibre-Reinforced Laminate....Pages 359-370
Ideal Fibre-Reinforced Materials and the Deformation of Real Composites....Pages 371-378
Constitutive Equation for a Fiber-Reinforced Lamina....Pages 379-384
Elastic and Elastic-Plastic Deformations of Ideal Fibre-Reinforced Materials....Pages 385-390
Micro-Mechanics of a Segmented Embedded Fibre....Pages 391-396
A One-Dimensional Discrete Model of a Nanolayered Structure....Pages 397-402
Morphological N-Layered Cylindrical Pattern-Based Micromechanical Modelling....Pages 403-408
Upper and Lower Bounds for the Overall Properties of a Nonlinear Elastic Composite....Pages 409-414
Effective Yield Surfaces for Anisotropic Composite Materials....Pages 415-422
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Waves in Dissipative Anisotropic Solids....Pages 425-430
Inhomogeneous Plane Waves in Anisotropic Elastic Materials....Pages 431-436
Interfacial Phonons and the Existence of Elastic Interfacial Waves....Pages 437-442
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
Nonlinear Waves in Soils and Rocks....Pages 443-448
Surface Motion of Anisotropic and Inhomogeneous Alluvial Valleys Under Incident Plane SH Waves....Pages 449-454
Some New Ideas in the Theory of Surface Acoustic Waves in Anisotropic Media....Pages 455-462
Nonlinear Surface Waves Travelling Over a Corrugated Elastic Half-Space....Pages 463-468
Wave Propagation in Periodically Layered Elastic and Electroelastic Media....Pages 469-474
Waves in Pre-Stressed Laminated Plates....Pages 475-480
Dynamic Behaviour of Fibre Reinforced Circular Cylinders and Shells....Pages 481-486
Aspects of Chaotic Response of an Elastic-Plastic Beam to Impulsive Loading....Pages 487-492
Secondary Instability of a Pre-Stressed Elastic Plate....Pages 493-498
Back Matter....Pages 499-520