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The lecture presented at the Symposium was based on two recent papers [1, 2], each of them representing the text of an invited lecture.
There exists a well-developed empirical theory of plastic deformation in metals which allows engineers successfully to predict the behavior of a variety of structures and machine elements loaded beyond the elastic limit for purposes of design. This theory rests, essentially, on a number of ad hoc assumptions. Many attempts have been made to fit this phenomenon into the formalism of thermodynamics to provide for it a securer scientific basis. Much progress in this direction has already been made. However, none of the proposals advanced so far has met with general acceptance.
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Kestin, J. (1988). Metal Plasticity as a Problem of Thermodynamics. In: Axelrad, D.R., Muschik, W. (eds) Constitutive Laws and Microstructure. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-83303-8_3
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