The book gives a comprehensive view of the present ability to take into account the microstructure and texture evolution in building up engineering models of the plastic behaviour of polycrystalline materials at large strains. It is designed for postgraduate students, research engineers and academics that are interested in using advanced models of the mechanical behaviour of polycrystalline materials.

Inhalt
H.P. Stüwe: Experimental Aspects of Crystal Plasticity. C. Teodosiu: Dislocation Modelling of Crystalline Plasticity. C. Stolz: Large Plastic Deformation of Polycrystals. L. Anand, S. Balasubramanian, M. Kothari: Constitutive Modelling of Polycrystalline Metals at Large Strains: Application to Deformation Processing. A. Molinari: Self-Consistent Modelling of Plastic and Viscoplastic Polycrystalline Materials. P.R. Dawson, A. Kumar: Deformation Process Simulations Using Polycrystal Plasticity.