Inelasticity and Micromechanics of Metal Matrix Composites

Abstract

I: Inelasticity of Metal Matrix Composites. Rate effects of hot isostatic pressing of a unidirectional SiC/Ti composite (YA. Bahei-El-Din, G.J. Dvorak). Effect of oxidation on damage evolution in titanium matrix MMC's (L.D. Hurtado, D.H. Allen). A cyclic plasticity model for metalmatrix-composites using an anisotropic yield surface (G.Z. Voyiadjis, G. Thiagarajan). Elastic and elastic-plastic properties of silicon carbide reinforced aluminium matrix composites (N. Yu et al.). On the mechanics of plastic deformation in metal matrix composites (H.M. Zbib, H.T. Zhu). II: Micromechanics of Metal Matrix Composites. Effective elastoplastic behaviour of two-phase metal matrix composites: micromechanics and computational algorithms (J.W. Ju, K.H. Tseng). Micromechanic and macroscopic thermoviscoplastic behaviour of short fibre MMC (S. Kruch, J.L. Chaboche, N. El Mayas). Micromechanics of active metal matrix composites with shape memory alloy fibres (D.C. Lagoudas, Z. Bo, M.A. Qidwai). Experiments of crack-fibre interactions in composites with frictional interfaces (M.C. Larson). Micromechanical determination of the viscoplastic behaviour of a metal-matrix composite (J.Li, G.J. Weng). Geometrical non-linearity effect on fatigue crack tip deformation (T.H. Lin, Q.Y Chen, S.R. Lin). Modelling interfacial debonding in titanium matrix composites (C.J. Lissenden, C.T. Herakovich). A micromechanical constitutive model for rigid particles embedded in an elastic matrix (N.J. Mattei, M.M. Mehrabadi). Thermo-inelastic analysis of functionally graded materials: inapplicability of the classical micromechanics approach (M.-J. Pindera, J. Aboudi, S.M. Arnold). Micromechanical modelling of damage and plasticity in continuously reinforced MMCs (G.Z. Voyiadjis, P.I. Kattan). Author Index.