The exhaustive list of topics in Plasticity in which we provide Help with Homework Assignment and Help with Project is as follows:
- Plasticity.
- Plastic deformation using simple ideas and familiar examples.
- Difference between elasticity and plasticity.
- Role of geometry and thermodynamics in plastic deformation.
- Tensor algebra and tensor analysis.
- Kinematics.
- Balance laws.
- Second law of thermodynamics.
- Constitutive relations :
- Superimposed rigid body motions.
- Material symmetry.
- Unloading elastic bodies to zero stress.
- Deformation and incompatibility :
- Dislocation density.
- Single dislocations.
- Geometrically necessary and statistically stored dislocations.
- Deformation and incompatibility.
- Invariance under compatible changes in the reference configuration.
- Thermodynamics of plastic flow :
- State variables and constitutive assumptions.
- Dissipation.
- Isothermal and dissipative processes.
- Flow rules.
- Yield criteria.
- Rate dependent plasticity.
- Rate independent plasticity.
- Ilyushin’s postulate of maximum plastic work (including Drucker’s postulate).
- Maximum dissipation and normality rule.
- Plasticity with small elastic strains: Associated flow rules.
- Rigid perfectly plasticity: yield criterions and flow rules.
- Hardening rules.
- Uniqueness theorems.
- Variational principles in plasticity.
- Elastic plastic torsion.
- Plane problems: Slip line theory.
- Stability under plastic flow.
- Dynamic plasticity.
- One-dimensional waves.
- Shock waves.
- Acceleration waves.
- Strain localization.