Yielding and Failure of Transversely Isotropic Solids

A suitable framework allowing to describe yielding and failure of anisotropic materials with the required generality and pertinence is furnished by the theory of representations for tensor functions. In this Chapter, invariant formulations of the plastic behavior and failure of transversely isotropic solids are developed. For other material symmetries, the corresponding constitutive relations can be derived in a similar manner.