This book is intended for graduate students and researchers and gives an illustrated account of the current understanding of the physics of plasticity. The plastic deformation of various types of crystals over a wide range of temperature is treated in terms of dynamical properties of dislocations. Special effects of plasticity, eg softening of metals at the superconducting transition and photoplastic effects in semiconducting crystals, are emphasized, as well as creep deformation in metals and composite materials.
  • ISBN10 3540526935
  • ISBN13 9783540526933
  • Publish Date April 1991
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 23 March 2008
  • Publish Country DE
  • Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
  • Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 238
  • Language English