The Eighth Asia-Symposium on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA2006) was held on the 25th to 29th September 2006 at Nagoya University, Japan. This proceedings contains 240 papers which were presented in oral and poster sessions at AEPA 2006. The Papers were selected from the submissions of over 450 abstracts and 286 full papers, covering a broad range of topics dealing with plasticity in various disciplines such as solid mechanics, metal forming, structural analysis, and materials science. The papers concerned various materials such as metals, composites, polymers, foams, soils, and rocks in the nano-, micro- and macro-scales. Each paper was peer-reviewed by two experts in the relevant technical area.

Table of Contents


Table of Contents

Part I
Plenary Lectures
● An Internal Variable Approach to Inelastic Deformation Including Structural Superplasticity
● Mechanics of Carbon Nanotubes: A Continuum Theory Based on Interatomic Potentials
● Plasticity-Related Microstructure-Property Relations for Materials Design
● Discrete Dislocation Modeling of Plastic Flow Processes
● Nanoindentation-induced Collective Dislocation Behaviors and Nanoplasticity
● Analyses of Cavitation Instabilities in Ductile Metals
Advanced Materials
● The Effect of Heating Rate on the Formability of Bulk Metallic Glass in a Supercooled Liquid Region
● Investigation of the Dynamic Bucking in the Carbon Nanotube under Impact Torque
● Deformation Behavior of Dual-Phase LTSP Ti3Al Based Alloy
● Evaluation of Adhesive Properties of Arc PVD Coatings on Non-Nitrided and Nitrided Various Substrates
● Mechanical Alloying of Ti-Ai-Si-C Powers, their Thermal Stability, Phase Evolution, and Synthesis and Deformation of In    Situ Produced Titanium Aluminide Composites
● High Temperature Deformation Behaviour of a New Magnesium Alloy
● Micromechanical Study on High-Temerature Behavior of ZrO2 Particle-Dispered Ni Composites
● Evaluation of Strain Concentration in Carbon Nanotube with Bend Junction
● High Strain Rate Deformation Behavior of Mg-Al-Zn Alloys at Elevated Temperatures
● Mechanical Properties of Bulk Glassy Metal after Deformation under High Temperature Conditions
● Effects of Strain Rate and Temperature on Yield Locus for AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Sheet
Crystal Plasticity
Damaged Materials
Dynamic Behavior
Finite Element Analysis
Foams
Fracture, Fatigue and Strength
Indentation
Metal Formability
Metal Forming

Part II
Metal Plasticity and Viscoplasticity
● Modeling of Dynamic Recrystallization in Hot Working
● A Thermodynamically Consistent Eulerian Description of Finite Elastoplasticity
● Long Term Creep Analysis of Pipe Bends in a Steam Transfer Line at Elevated Temperature
● Quantitative Description of Microscopic Plastic Deformation of Polycrystalline Aluminum Using Laser-Scanning    Microscope
● Modeling of Large-Strain Cyclic Plasticity for Accurate Springback Simulation
● Constitutive Description of Microscopic Plastic Deformation of Polycrystalline Aluminum Using Laser-Scanning    Microscope
● Modeling of Large-Strain Cyclic Plasticity for Accurate Springback Simulation
● Constitutive Modeling for Uniaxial Time-Dependent Ratcheting of SS304 Stainless Steel
● Dynamic Strain Aging during the Plastic Flow of Metals
● Calibration of Texture-Adjusted Strain-Rate Potential and Its Application
● Effect of Texture on High Temperature Deformation Behaviors of Ti-6Al-4V Alloy
Micro/Nano Materials and Structures
Multiscale Analysis
Molecular Dynamics
Phase Transformation
Polymers
Rocks, Stones and Concretes
Shape Memory Alloys
Soils and Granular Materials
Structures and Stress Analysis
Welds and Joints