www.cimne.com Computational Plasticity XIII – Fundamentals and Applications

The ever increasing rate of development of new engineering materials required to meet advanced technological needs poses fresh challenges in the field of constitutive modelling. The complex behaviour of such materials demands a closer interaction between numerical analysts and material scientists in order to produce thermodynamically consistent models which provide a response, while keeping with fundamental micromechanical principles and experimental observations. This necessity for collaboration is further highlighted by the continuing remarkable developments in computer hardware which makes the numerical simulation of complex deformation responses increasingly possible. The developments that have taken place in these directions are illustrated by the contents of the papers included in these Proceedings. A stronger interaction between the phenomenological and micromechanical modelling of plasticity behaviour is apparent. The development of efficien