Download lecture notes from the below links:

1. Orientation and Introduction

2. Scalar, Vector, and Coordinate system

3. Stress and Strain

4. Principal Space and Elasticity

5. Macroscopic Plasticity Yielding

6. Work Hardening

7. Instability

8. Strain Rate and Temperature

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Some quest(s) for advanced students.

a. Processing raw data obtained from uniaxial tension tests: click here!

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Further readings and useful pages

• Strain hardening

• Euler angles

• Tensors

• Principal space

• Excel/Google SpreadSheet to practice 2nd rank tensor transformation

• Excel/Google SpreadSheet to practice yield surface drawing

• LaTeX script to understand Euler angle

• Pole figure plotting

• thin-walled tube

• Newton-Raphson approach to solve the instability of metals under uniaxial tension