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 . Abstract Many data are suitably modeled by functions consisting of straight-line segments. These functions may be called piecewise-linear. Smooth ...