Engineering Plasticity from Macroscale to Nanoscale: Aepa 2002 (Key Engineering Materials)

These proceedings comprise 139 papers presented at the 6th Asia-Pacific Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA2002), held from the 2nd to the 6th of December 2002 at the University of Sydney, Australia. They bring the reader up-to-date with research effort on a broad range of fronts in engineering plasticity; at scales ranging from nano to macro. The specific subjects, discussed here in detail, include constitutive modelling, damage fracture mechanisms, dynamics and rate-dependent behaviours, energy absorption, fatigue and cyclic loading, forming, machining, micro-characterization, nano-mechanics, phase transformations, polymer and composite behaviours, strength, deformation, structural stability and superplasticity.