Proceedings of the 14. International Conference on Computational Plasticity: Fundamentals and Applications

This volume contains the full papers accepted for presentation at the XIV International Conference on Computational Plasticity (COMPLAS 2017), held in Barcelona on 5-7 September, 2017. The ever increasing rate of development of new engineering materials required to meet advanced technological needs poses fresh challenges in the field of constitutive modelling. The complex behaviour of such materials demands a closer interaction between numerical analysts and material scientists in order to produce thermodynamically consistent models which provide a response, while keeping with fundamental micromechanical principles and experimental observations. This necessity for collaboration is further highlighted by the continuing remarkable developments in computer hardware which makes the numerical simulation of complex deformation responses increasingly possible. The developments that have taken place in these directions are illustrated by the contents of the papers included in these Proceedings. A stronger interaction between the phenomenological and micromechanical modelling of plasticity behaviour is apparent. The development of efficient and accurate computational methods for plasticity problems continues to be challenging goal, while it is interesting to note the permanence of element modelling as a research issue. The blending of classical FEM with new particle-based and discrete element methods appears as one of the more prominent areas of research. Industrial forming processes, geomechanics, biomechanics, steel, concrete and masonry structures form the core of the applications of the different numerical methods presented. (authors)