Offering a well-balanced blend of theory and hands-on applications this book presents a
unified framework for the main dissipative phenomena in metallic materials: plasticity and
damage. Based on representation theory for tensor functions and scale-bridging theorems this
framework enables the development of constitutive models that account for the influence of
crystallographic structures and deformation mechanisms on the macroscopic behavior. It allows
readers to develop a clear understanding of the range of applicability of any given model as
well as its capabilities and limitations and provides procedures for parameter identification
along with key concepts necessary to solve boundary value problems making it useful to both
researchers and engineering practitioners. Although the book focuses on new contributions to
modeling anisotropic materials the review of the foundations of plasticity and models for
isotropic materials completed with detailed mathematical proofs meanthat it is self-consistent
and accessible to graduate students in engineering mechanics and material sciences.