Plasticity of three-dimensional foams

• Main Author: Ochsner, Andreas
• Other Authors: Holm, Altenbach
• Format: Book Section
• Published: Springer Vienna 2010
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/31196/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0297-8_3
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

This chapter gives in the first part a summary of some important elements in continuum mechanics, i.e. the decomposition of the stress tensor in its spherical and the deviatoric part and the use of stress invariants to describe the physical content of the stress tensor. In the next part, the elastic...