IUTAM Symposium on Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Elastic-Inelastic Behavior of Engineering Materials: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Marrakech, Morocco, 20–25 October 2002

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
New Developments in the Brittle to Ductile Transitions of Fracture in Intrinsically Brittle Crystals and Polycrystals....Pages 1-4
Dislocation-Based Length-Scales in Crystal Plasticity: Experiments and Modeling....Pages 5-16
Application of a Variational Self-Consistent Procedure to the Prediction of Deformation Textures in Polycrystals....Pages 17-24
What about the Yield Transformation Surface Determination (Austenite → Martensite) with The Measurement of Austenite and Martensite Lattice Parameters for some Shape Memory Alloys?....Pages 25-32
Micro- to Macroscopic Deformation Behavior of Amorphous Polymer with Slightly Heterogeneous Distribution of Molecular Chains....Pages 33-40
Cross Slip Viewed at the Nano- and Micrometer Scale....Pages 41-48
A Multiscale Micromechanics Approach to Describe Environmental Effects on Surface Crack Initiation under Cyclic Loading....Pages 49-57
Atomic-Scale Modelling of Dislocation Behaviour under Stress....Pages 59-66
Coalescence of Nanoscale Islands during Polycrystalline Thin Film Growth....Pages 67-74
On PLC Band Propagation Velocity under Stress-Controlled Tests in Aluminum Alloys....Pages 75-82
Effect of Some Parameters on the Elastoplastic Behavior of Green Sand....Pages 83-88
Experimental Investigations of Size Effects in Thin Copper Foils....Pages 89-96
Plastic Response of Thin Films Due to Thermal Cycling....Pages 97-104
Measurement of the Stress Intensity Factor, K1, for Copper by a Digital Image Correlation Method....Pages 105-112
Homogeneization of Viscoplastic Materials....Pages 113-124
Collective Dislocation Behavior in Single Crystalline Aluminum Under Indentation....Pages 125-132
Multiscale Modelling of Texture Gradient Effects on Localization in FCC Polycrystals....Pages 133-140
Multiaxial Plastic Fatigue Behavior with Multiscale Modeling....Pages 141-148
Damage, Opening and Sliding of Grain Boundaries....Pages 149-156
Gradients of Hardening in Nonlocal Dislocation Based Plasticity....Pages 157-165
Determination of the Material Intrinsic Length Scale of Gradient Plasticity Theory....Pages 167-174
Computer Simulation of Contact Force Distribution in Random Granular Packings....Pages 175-182
Three-Dimensional Structures of the Geometrically Necessary Dislocations Generated from Non-Uniformities in Metal Microstructures....Pages 183-190
Simulation of Texture Evolution in Equal Channel Angular Extrusion of Copper Using a New Flow Field....Pages 191-198
Initial Energy Dissipation Mechanism at Crack Tip on the Ductile to Brittle Transition....Pages 199-206
Constitutive Modeling of Viscoelastic Unloading of Glassy Polymers....Pages 207-216
On the Constitutive Theory of Power-Law Materials Containing Voids....Pages 217-226
Objective Quantification of the Ductility Within the Coupling Elasticity-Damage Behavior: Formulation....Pages 227-233
Discrete Dislocation Predictions for Single Crystal Hardening: Tension VS Bending....Pages 235-242
On Plasticity and Damage Evolution During Sheet Metal Forming....Pages 243-250
Modeling of Thermo-Electro-Elastic Effective Behaviors of Piezoelectric Composite Mediums and Analysis of Reinforcement Orientation Effects....Pages 251-258
Investigations in Size Dependent Torsions and Fractures....Pages 259-266
Influence of Microstructural Parameters on Shape Memory Alloys Behavior....Pages 267-274
Investigation of Ridging in Ferritic Stainless Steel Using Crystal Plasticity Finite Element Method....Pages 275-282
Grain Boundary Effects and Failure Evolution in Polycrystalline Materials....Pages 283-290
The Influence of an Heterogeneous Dispersion on the Failure Behaviour of Metal-Matrix Composites: Micromechanical Approach....Pages 291-298
A Cohesive Segments Approach For Dynamic Crack Growth....Pages 299-306
A Linear Model of Processing Path in Cubic-Orthotropic System....Pages 307-314
Taylor Theory with Microscopic Slip Transfer Conditions....Pages 315-323
Dynamics of Nanostructure Formation During Thin Film Deposition....Pages 325-332
Prediction of Damage in Randomly Oriented Short-Fibre Composites by Means of a Mechanistic Approach....Pages 333-341
Nonsteady Plain-Strain Ideal Plastic Flow Considering Elastic Dead Zone....Pages 343-350
Multiscale Modelling of Non-Linear Behaviour of Heterogeneous Materials: Comparison of Recent Homogeneisation Methods....Pages 351-358
Thermomechanical Behaviour of Shape Memory Alloy Taylor’s Model....Pages 359-366
Multiscale Analysis of Dynamic Deformation in Monocrystals....Pages 367-378
Micro/Meso-Modeling of Polymeric Composites with Damage Evolution....Pages 379-388
An Alternative Approach for Heterogeneous Material Behaviour Modelling....Pages 389-396
On Anisotropic Formulations of the Elastic Law within Multiplicative Inelasticity....Pages 397-404
Deep Drawing Process of the AISI 304 Stainless Steel Cup: Interaction Between Design Tools and Kinetic of Plastic Strain Induced Martensite....Pages 405-412
Modeling and Simulation of Dynamic Failure in Ductile Metals....Pages 413-420
Effects of Polymeric Additives on the Morphology and the Structure of Calcium Carbonate Material....Pages 421-428
Back Matter....Pages 429-434