IUTAM Symposium on Theoretical, Computational and Modelling Aspects of Inelastic Media [electronic resource] : Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held at Cape Town, South Africa, January 14–18, 2008 / edited by B. Daya Reddy.

Multiscale Modeling and Simulation of Microstructure -- On Computational Procedures for Multi-Scale Finite Element Analysis of Inelastic Solids -- Material Characterization Based on Micro-Structural Computations and Homogenization -- Relaxed Potentials and Evolution Equations for Inelastic Microstructures -- Towards Effective Simulation of Effective Elastoplastic Evolution -- Numerical Approximation Techniques for Rate-Independent Inelasticity -- Damage and Fracture -- A Computational Methodology for Modeling Ductile Fracture -- Multiscale Methods for Fracturing Solids -- A Regularized Brittle Damage Model Solved by a Level Set Technique -- Gradient and Other Non-Local Theories -- A Counterpoint to Cermelli and Gurtin’s Criteria for Choosing the ‘Correct’ Geometric Dislocation Tensor in Finite Plasticity -- On Stability for Elastoplasticity of Integral-Type -- On the Mathematical Formulations of a Model of Strain Gradient Plasticity -- Uniqueness of Strong Solutions in Infinitesimal Perfect Gradient-Plasticity with Plastic Spin -- Algorithms and Computational Aspects -- SQP Methods for Incremental Plasticity with Kinematic Hardening -- Simulation of Elastoplastic Forming Processes Using Overlapping Domain Decomposition and Inexact Newton Methods -- Variational Formulation of the Cam-Clay Model -- Anisotropic Modelling of Metals in Forming Processes -- Inelastic Media under Uncertainty: Stochastic Models and Computational Approaches -- Automated Computational Modelling for Solid Mechanics -- Generalised Functions for Modelling Singularities: Direct and Inverse Problems -- Discontinuous Galerkin Methods -- A Discontinuous Galerkin Method for an Incompatibility-Based Strain Gradient Plasticity Theory -- Some Applications of Discontinuous Galerkin Methods in Solid Mechanics -- Some Aspects of a Discontinuous Galerkin Formulation for Gradient Plasticity at Finite Strains -- Computational Dynamics -- Energy-Momentum Algorithms for the Nonlinear Dynamics of Elastoplastic Solids -- Internal Variable Formulations of Problems in Elastoplastic Dynamics -- Time-FE Methods for the Nonlinear Dynamics of Constrained Inelastic Systems -- The Potential for SPH Modelling of Solid Deformation and Fracture -- Effect of Material Parameters in the Izod Test for Polymers -- Experimental and Computational Aspects -- The Response of “Large” Square Tubes (Width/Thickness Ratio > 45) to Opposite Lateral Blast Loads Followed by Dynamic Axial Load -- Modelling the Behaviour of Fibre-Metal Laminates subjected to Localised Blast Loading -- On the Measurement and Evaluation of the Width of Portevin–Le Chatelier Deformation Bands with Application to AA5083-H116 Aluminium Alloy -- Shakedown and Limit Analysis -- Direct Evaluation of Limits in Plasticity and Creep Deformation -- On Recent Progress in Shakedown Analysis and Applications to Large-Scale Problems -- Viscoelasticity -- Local and Global Regularity in Time Dependent Viscoplasticity -- Hamiltonian Theory of Viscoelasticity.

This work comprises papers based on some of the talks presented at the IUTAM Symposium of the same name, held in Cape Town, January 14-18, 2008. This volume treats cutting-edge issues in modelling, the behaviour of various classes of inelastic media, and associated algorithms for carrying out computational simulations. A key feature of the contributions are works directed at modelling behaviour at the meso and micro-scales, and at bridging the micro-macro scales.