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Plasticity Theory (Dover Books on Engineering)

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Product Details

  • Series: Dover Books on Engineering
  • Paperback: 544 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications (February 29, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0486462900
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486462905
  • Product Dimensions: 6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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1.0 out of 5 starsRecommend it if you hate someone
By John Mills on February 16, 2009
Format: Paperback Verified Purchase
The book is a confusing mess to try to use to learn plasticity. It might be useful to someone who is a specialist in plasticity but is a wandering jumble of numerous theories and complaints about the theories. Heavy numerical derivations without a clue what started it, where it is going, and just dropped to start the next subject.

This book has only a tenth the number of the figures and diagrams that an intro textbook needs. Specifically, the first 50 pages have only 7 diagrams and figures. The figures are typically confusing as well.

The book reuses variables/notation constantly. You never know what definition the variable has in an equation. Frequently, new variables and functions are thrown into an equation without a discussion of their meaning. A list of brief definitions concerning a new equation will just leave off a couple of the variables or functions.

I am on page 125. I still do not have an explicit equation about any form of plasticity. It is still wandering around about f(x) type discussions.
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2.0 out of 5 stars2 knocks its greek, 3 knocks its ijk.
By pen name here on March 23, 2015
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I am most of the way through a plasticity course using this book... and I just found chen's book... its ordered and coming.

It seems for every PAGE in lubliner, I have to research quite a few other books and sources to get an understanding of what he has generalized.

The notation is recycled and mutilated to a point of utter confusion: only so many primed, starred, over/underlined, dotted, bolded, italic, of the SAME greek/latin characters can be used before its all non-sense, and you leave feeling lubliner is speaking another language, or you have come across one of those trolling websites with a dictionary of keywords to entice the search engine, but with no discernible content.

As a side note: as it turns out, chen was drucker's graduate student!
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5.0 out of 5 starsAn excellent book from a legendary teacher
By A Customer on July 17, 1999
Format: Hardcover
This may well be the best book on the subject in market today.
In Plasticity Theory, Lubliner comes across as a teacher, a writer, and a spectator--one who has seen the field of plasticity grow. Each page of the book reflects his deep understanding of the subject.
I believe his course in plasticity at the University of California at Berkeley has inspired a generation of students, and has helped to create well known works of Dafalias & Popov, Lade & Duncan, Singh & Mitchell, Duncan & Chang, and Simo & Taylor. The book covers many of the modern advances in engineering plasticity and may be the most complete text available on the subject today.
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4.0 out of 5 starsA second edition is in order
By S.K. Jain on March 27, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Many have commented on the review below. I have heard men of repute say, this is a very good book. Then, there is a recurring concern -- a 5-star book on the theory of plasticity is yet to be written. I believe the book has the potential for becoming the best book in plasticity ever written. What is missing in the book?
Plasticity is a vast subject and my knowledge is limited. But as far as I can see, the book needs a base of the endochronic theory. Why? Let me give you an example. The book has Prandtl-Reuss relations. Fine. But if you take these relations and fit them with a monotonic uniaxial test, do you end up with a set of correct stress-strain relations of the theory of plasticity? Definitely not. What you have is some workable curve-fit equations. Endochronic theory shows us the way.
Endochronic theory is an American dream -- a quest for excellence. The scope is limited, but whatever it can accomplish, that is the best. And, America's students deserve the best. When the book was written, the theory was hardly there; Lubliner barely touches upon the concepts.
In 1940s, there came a young professor at Brown University. His name was D.C. Drucker. He had a vision of plasticity. The book covers what he accomplished. I believe, the endochronic hardening rule when combined with the incremental theory of plasticity, along with a proper methods of material parameter determination, completes a portion of Drucker's vision. Permit me to say, works of Steven Engelstad and Su-Yuen Hsu at Virginia Tech will benefit plasticity students across America.
A second edition of the book would be greatly appreciated by the plasticity community.
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