Advances in Continuum Mechanics

1 Fundamentals of Plasticity.- Some remarks on the phenomenological description of anisotropic behaviour of elasticplastic solids.- On the choice of integrity base of strain invariants for constitutive equations of isotropic materials.- Modification of the normality rule.- Plastic behaviour of saturated porous media.- Compressible plastic deformation of porous metals.- Application of the mathematical theory of plasticity for developing new methods of material testing.- Stochastic models for the plasticity of metals.- A concept for modelling and computation of finite inelastic deformations.- 2 Applied Plasticity.- A theoretical and experimental modeling of the mechanics of ductile fracture in metals.- A numerical Cosserat-approach predicting the statical stability of a plane frictionless block-structure, and its boundary conditions.- Evolution of anisotropy in sheet-steels submitted to off-axes large deformations.- On the theory of plane strain deformations of critical state models for sands.- On the quasi-analytical solutions of elasticplastic problems with nonlinear hardening.- Some mechanisms of a granular mass in a silo - model tests and a numerical Cosserat approach.- Experimental investigation on plastic deformation of stainless steel at low temperature.- Upper bound approach for prediction of occurence of ductile fracture in metal forming.- 3 Critical States, Failure and Fracture.- Plasticity-related critical states and failure criteria.- Physical argument for nonlocality of microcracking damage in a continuum.- Plastic localization in damaged materials.- Some remarks to the application of damage mechanics to low cycle fatigue.- A new integral equation approach for the curved crack problem in a circular plate.- Crack analysis in fibrous composites with partiallyplastified matrix materials.- On isolated point singularities in classical elasticity.- Localization within the framework of micropolar elasto-plasticity.- Bifurcation phenomena of compressible

Continuum mechanics of solids, especially their behavior under inelastic deformations, damage and fracture. Contributions to the theoretical, experimental and applicational aspects surveying the whole field, and therefore of interest for all researches in continuum mechanics.