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ES532 MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF PLASTICITY

Course Code: 5610532
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Engineering Sciences
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Physical background. Idealizations, yield criteria. Plastic-stress strain relations. Two measures of work-hardening. Extremum principles, the plastic potential and uniqueness. Elasto-plastic problems. Plane stress and plane strain (theory of slip-line field with some applications). Geometric effects. Plastic anisotropy.