The primary objective of the Asia-Pacific Conference on Engineering Plasticity and Its Applications (AEPA) is to provide a free forum for exchanging ideas and introducing the latest research findings in the field of engineering plasticity. This conference is unique among the related conferences in that it provides a forum for all fields of plasticity so that multi-disciplinary research works are encouraged. This proceedings volume consists of papers presented at AEPA2008, and covers the following categories in all fields of engineering plasticity: constitutive modeling; damage, fracture, fatigue and failure; dynamic loading and crash dynamics; engineering applications and case studies; experimental and numerical techniques; molecular dynamics; nano, meso, micro and crystal plasticity; phase transformations; plastic instability and strain localization; plasticity in advanced materials; plasticity in materials processing technology; plasticity in tribology; porous, cellular and composite materials; structural plasticity; superplasticity; and time-dependent deformation.Ranging from nanoscale to macroscale applications of engineering plasticity, this book touches upon fields as diverse as mechanical engineering, materials science, physics, chemistry and civil engineering.

Constitutive Modeling: Dynamic Crushing Simulation of Metallic Foams with Respect to Deformation and Energy Absorption; A Full Constitutive Relation of Silicon-Steel Sheet with Anisotropy Considered; Damage, Fracture, Fatigue and Failure: Study on the Fracture Behavior of W-Ni-Fe Heavy Alloys; Fatigue Properties of Automobile High-Strength Bolts; Dynamic Loading and Crash Dynamics: Study of Cutting Aerial PMMA with Miniature Detonation Cord; A New Method for Vibration Response of Beam on Foundation Under Moving Load; Engineering Applications and Case Studies: Dynamic Simulation of the Tailing Process in Hot Finishing Mill; Effect of Asymmetrical Stand Stiffness on Hot Rolled Strip Shape; Experimental and Numerical Techniques: Numerical Study on the Shaped Charges; Shear Strength Prediction of Rc Beams Wrapped with FRP; Molecular Dynamics: Dynamics Behavior Analysis of Globular Particle in Rheology Material with Controlled Solid Fraction; Effect of Helicity on the Buckling Behavior of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes; Nano, Meso, Micro and Crystal Plasticity: Energy of Armchair Nanotube Using the Modified Cauchy-Born Rule; An Integrated Micromechanics Modelling Approach for Micro-Forming Simulation; Phase Transformations: Effect of Transformation Volume STRAIN on the Spherical Indentation of Shape Memory Alloys; Characterization of Bainitic Microstructures in Low Carbon Hsla Steels; Plastic Instability and Strain Localization: Energy Absorption of Expansion Tube Considering Local Buckling Characteristics; Plasticity in Advanced Materials: Change in Microscopic Hardness during Tensile Plastic Deformation of Polycrystalline Aluminum and Titanium; Characterization of Electro-Rheological Fluid Under High Shear Rate in Parallel Ducts; Plasticity in Materials Processing Technology: Prediction of the Residual Stress in the Process of Straightening Wire; Cold Butt Joining of Light Metal Sheet by Shot Peening; Plasticity in Tribology: Comparing Sliding-Wear Characteristics of the Electro-Pressure Sintered and Wrought Cobalt; Porous, Cellular and Composite Materials: Homogenized Creep Behavior of CFRP Laminates at High Temperature; Penetration Analysis of Aluminum Alloy Foam; Structural Plasticity: The Deformation of the Multi-Layered Panel of Sheet Metals under Elevated Temperatures; Early Yielding of Liquid-Filled Conical Shells; Superplasticity: Experimental Study on Deformation Mechanism of Az31 Magnesium Alloy Under Various Temperature Conditions; Time-Dependent Deformation: Effects of Temperature and Forming Speed on Plastic Bending of Adhesively Bonded Sheet Metals; Analysis of Elasto-Plastic Stress Waves by a Time-Discontinuous Variational Integrator of Hamiltonian; and other papers.