The course is conducted in English。

This course starts from the inelastic behavior of materials and structures and basic concept of plasticity. Then it establishes analytical ways to understand the plasticity in different materials and structures. In addition, the recent progress in computational plasticity is introduced. Benefits of this course are for students to get familiar with experimental, analytical, and computational fundamentals in plasticity, to be familiar with the formulation of incremental analysis, and to have a basic understanding of the high-dimensional limit analysis. This knowledge is essential to meet the challenge posed by future engineering analyses and designs.

1. Understanding the inelastic behavior of materials and structures. 2. Understanding the difference between theory of elasticity and theory of plasticity for materials & structures. 3. Remembering the constitutive theories of elastoplasticity. 4. Learning the incremental analysis (time series analysis) of elastoplastic models. 5. Experiencing the recent advances in computational approaches of elastoplastic solid. 6. Experiencing the limit analysis in high-dimensional load space of elastoplastic solid. 7. Activating self-learning for the related topics in theory of plasticity. 8. Experiencing the discussion with international students.

1. Preview before the class 2. Discussion and exercise in the class 3. Review after the class

9 to 12 hours

1. Han-Chin Wu, Continuum Mechanics and Plasticity, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005. 2. Jirasek and Bazant, Inelastic Analysis of Structures, Wiley, 2002. 3. Chen and Han, Plasticity for Structural Engineers, Springer-Verlag, 1988.

1. Han-Chin Wu, Continuum Mechanics and Plasticity, Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2005. 2. Jirasek and Bazant, Inelastic Analysis of Structures, Wiley, 2002. 3. Chen and Han, Plasticity for Structural Engineers, Springer-Verlag, 1988. 4. Lubliner, Plasticity Theory, Macmillan, 1990. 5. Kaliszky, Plasticity Theory and Engineering Applications, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1989. 6. Martin, Plasticity, MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1975. 7. Brokowski, Analysis of Skeletal Structural Systems in the Elastic and Elastic-Plastic Range, Elsevier, 1988. 8. Nemat-Nasser, Plasticity, Cambridge University Press, 2004. 9. Baker and Heyman, Plastic Design of Frames 1 Fundamentals, Cambridge University Press, 1969. 10. Heyman, Plastic Design of Frames, Applications, Cambridge University Press, 1971. 11. Horne, Plastic Theory of Structures, 2nd ed., Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1979. 12. Mendelson, Plasticity: Theory and Application, Macmillan, 1968. 13. Hill, The Mathematical Theory of Plasticity, Oxford University Press, 1950. 14. Prager, An Introduction to Plasticity, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1959. 15 Kachanov, Foundations of the Theory of Plasticity, North-Holland, 1971. 16. Chakrabarty, Theory of Plasticity, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, 1998; 3rd ed., Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006. 17. Johnson and Mellor, Engineering Plasticity, Van Nostrand Reinhold, London, 1973. 18. Cristescu, Dynamic Plasticity, North-Holland, 1967; 2nd ed., World Scientific, 2007.