Plasticity: Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis

Preface to the Second Edition.- Preface to the First Edition.-Preliminaries.- Continuum Mechanics and Linearized Elasticity.- Elastoplastic Media.- The Plastic Flow Law in a Convex-Analytic Setting.- Basics of Functional Analysis and Function Spaces.- Variational Equations and Inequalities.- The Primal Variational Problem of Elastoplasticity.- The Dual Variational Problem of Classical Elastoplasticity.- Introduction to Finite Element Analysis.- Approximation of Variational Problems.- Approximations of the Abstract Problem.- Numerical Analysis of the Primal Problem.- References.- Index.-