Preface

This monograph is focused on constitutive description of mechanical behavior of engineering materials: both conventional (e.g., polycrystalline homogeneous isotropic or anisotropic metallic materials) and nonconventional ones (e.g., heterogeneous multicomponent, usually anisotropic composite materials) fabricated by modern material engineering. Effective material properties at the macrolevel depend on both the material microstructure (isotropic or originally anisotropic in general case) as well as dissipative phenomena occurred on fabrication and consecutive loading phase, resulting in irreversible microstructure changes. The material symmetry is a background and anisotropy is a core around which the book is formed. Revision of classical rules of enhanced constitutive description of materials, capable of capturing virgin or acquired anisotropy, hydrostatic pressure dependence, distortion of initial and subsequent yield/failure surfaces, as well as coupled several dissipative phenomena, such as (thermo)elastic, viscoelastic, elastic-plastic-damage, is necessary. In the past decade new developed technologies for manufacturing of advanced engineering materials have stimulated numerous original papers addressed to more enhanced and rigorous constitutive description and its experimental verification. Among the recent books attempting to combine a progress in constitutive description of complex materials with modern engineering expectations, some can be mentioned. These are: The Mechanics of Constitutive Modeling by Ottosen and Ristinmaa, Elsevier 2005; Advanced Materials and Structures for Extreme Operating Conditions by Skrzypek, Ganczarski, Rustichelli and Egner, Springer 2008; Innovative Technological Materials, Eds. Rustichelli and Skrzypek, Springer 2010; Continuum Damage Mechanics by Murakami, Springer 2012; Damage Mechanics in Metal Forming by Saanouni, Wiley 2012; Micromechanics of Composite Materials by Aboudi, Arnold and Bednarcyk, Elsevier 2013; Plasticity of Pressure Sensitive Materials, Eds. Altenbach and Öchsner, Springer 2014, to mention only a few of them. A variety of pioneering original papers given by, e.g., Chaboche, Voyiadjis, Aboudi, Barlat, Khan, and many others, need to be