Theory of Plastic Instability

This commemorative volume celebrates 50 years of Henryk Petryk's scientific career and his distinguished contributions to the theory of plastic instability, a critical area in materials science and mechanical engineering. His thirteen selected individual works are preceded by a new unifying introduction, which creates a coherent monograph. Its core consists of the first three extensive chapters-originally published in the prestigious Springer series CISM Courses and Lectures-and the most recent final chapter. Curated to showcase the evolution and enduring relevance of his pioneering research, this collection offers both a historical perspective and authoritative insights into one of the field's most challenging topics.

Petryk H. Theory of bifurcation and instability in time-independent plasticity. In
CISM Courses and Lectures No. 327, Udine
1991 (Ed. Q. S. Nguyen), pp. 95-152, Springer, Wien - New York 1993. - Petryk H. Stability and constitutive inequalities in plasticity. In
CISM Courses and Lectures No. 336, Udine
1992 (Ed. W. Muschik), pp. 259-329, Springer, Wien - New York 1993. - Petryk H. Theory of Material Instability in Incrementally Nonlinear Plasticity. In
CISM Courses and Lectures No. 414
,
Udine
1999 (Ed. H. Petryk), pp. 261-331, Springer, Wien - New York 2000.

- Petryk H. A consistent energy approach to defining stability of plastic deformation processes. In
Stability in the Mechanics of Continua, Proc. IUTAM Symp. , Nuembrecht
1981 (Ed. F. H. Schroeder), pp. 262-272, Springer, Berlin - Heidelberg 1982. - Petryk H. On stability of time-independent materials at finite strain. In
Finite Inelastic Deformations - Theory and Applications, Proc. IUTAM Symp. Hannover
1991 (Ed. D. Besdo and E. Stein), 189-196, Springer, Berlin - Heidelberg 1992. - Petryk H. Plastic instability: Criteria and computational approaches.
Arch. Comp. Meth. Engng
Vol. 4, 111-151, Springer 1997. - Ry M. , Kursa M. , Petryk H. Spontaneous emergence of deformation bands in single-crystal plasticity simulations at small strain.
Computational Mechanics
, Springer 2024 (
in press
).