Theory of Plasticity
Course Name:
ME 421 THEORY OF PLASTICITY
Programme:
B.Tech (Mechanical)
Semester:
Eighth
Category:
Programme Specific Electives (PSE)
Credits (L-T-P):
(3-0-0) 3
Content:
A brief review of elasticity, octahedral stress, spherical and deviatoric stress, representative stress,
Engineering and natural strains, cubical dilation, finite strains coefficients Octahedral strain, strain rate,
tensor, yield criteria for ductile metal, stress space, stress-strain relations, plastic stress-strain relations,
yield locus, symmetry convexity, normality rule, upper and lower bound theorems and corollaries and slip
line theory.
References:
R.A.C.Slater, Engineering Plasticity: Theory and Application to Metal Forming Process, The McMillan Press Ltd, London, 1977.
Sadhu Singh, Theory of Plasticity and Metal forming Process, Khanna Publishers, New Delhi, 2008. Chakraborty. J, Theory of plasticity, Mc-Graw Hill Book Company, New York, 1987.
Department:
Mechanical Engineering