This is the second post (here’s the first one) about an approach to introducing the derivative to calculus students that is counter to what I’ve seen in textbooks and other traditional treatments of ...

A theory of plasticity is considered in which the yield function is a piecewise linear function of the stresses, the flow law is based on the plastic potential, and the strain-hardening is isotropic ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Mathematics of Operations Research publishes articles concerned with mathematical and computational foundations of operations research, including ...