Applied Problems in the Mechanics of Strain Hardening of Structural Metallic Materials

Some applied problems of the mechanics of strain-hardening processes in metallic materials are considered. To solve these problems, the concept of loading surface, which separates the elastic and elastoplastic domains in the stress space, is used. Strain-hardening models are analyzed. For a wide range of steels and alloys, the most commonly used hypothesis of isotropic-and-kinematic hardening is experimentally justified __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 10, pp. 12–51, October 2005.