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PrefaceINTRODUCTION TO CRYSTALLINE ANISOTROPY AND THE CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FINITE ELEMENT METHODPART I: FundamentalsMETALLURGICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF PLASTIC DEFORMATIONIntroductionLattice DislocationsDeformation Martensite and Mechanical TwinningCONTINUUM MECHANICSKinematicsMechanical EquilibriumThermodynamicsTHE FINITE ELEMENT METHODThe Principle of Virtual WorkSolution Procedure - DiscretizationNon-Linear FEMTHE CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD AS A MULTI-PHYSICS FRAMEWORKPART II: The Crystal Plasticity Finite Element MethodCONSTITUTIVE MODELSDislocation SlipDisplacive TransformationsDamageHOMOGENIZATIONIntroductionStatistical Representation of Crystallographic TextureComputational HomogenizationMean-Field HomogenizationGrain-Cluster MethodsNUMERICAL ASPECTS OF CRYSTAL PLASTICITY FINITE ELEMENT METHOD IMPLEMENTATIONSGeneral RemarksExplicit Versus Implicit Integration MethodsElement TypesPART III: ApplicationMICROSCOPIC AND MESOSCOPIC EXAMPLESIntroduction to the Field of CPFE Experimental ValidationStability and Grain Fragmentation in Aluminum under Plane Strain DeformationTexture and Dislocation Density Evolution in a Bent Single-Crystalline Copper-NanowireTexture and Microstructure underneath a Nanoindent in a Copper Single CrystalApplication of a Nonlocal Dislocation Model Including Geometrically Necessary Dislocations to Simple Shear Tests of Aluminum Single CrystalsApplication of a Grain Boundary Constitutive Model to Simple Shear Tests of Aluminum Bicrystals with Different MisorientationEvolution of Dislocation Density in a Crystal Plasticity ModelThree-Dimensional Aspects of Oligocrystal PlasticitySimulation of Recrystallization Using Micromechanical Results of CPFE SimulationsSimulations of Multiphase TRIP SteelsDamage Nucleation ExampleThe Grain Size-Dependence in Polycrystal ModelsMACROSCOPIC EXAMPLESUsing Elastic Constants from Ab Initio Simulations for Predicting Textures and Texture-Dependent Elastic Properties of Beta-TitaniumSimulation of Earing during Cup Drawing of Steel and AluminumSimulation of Lankford ValuesVirtual Material Testing for Sheet Stamping SimulationsOUTLOOK AND CONCLUSIONS