PART I: Preliminaries on Mechanics of Continuous Media
1. Kinematics of Continuous Media
2. Balance Laws and Stress Tensors
3. Some Experiments and Models for Solids
PART II: Functional Spaces in Viscoplasticity
1. Functional Spaces of Scalar-valued Functions
2. Functional Spaces Attached to Some Linear Differential Operators of First Order
3. Functional Spaces of Vector-valued Functions Defined on Real Intervals
PART III: Quasistatic Processes for Rate-Type Viscoplastic Materials
1. Discussion of a Quasistatic Elastic-Viscoplastic Problem
2. Behavior of the Solution in the Viscoelastic Case
3. An Approach to Perfect Plasticity
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5. Quasistatic Processes for Rate-type Viscoplastic Materials with Internal State Variables
6. An Application to a Mining Engineering Problem
PART IV: Dynamic Processes for Rate-Type Elastic-Viscoplastic Materials
1. Discussion of a Dynamic Elastic-Viscoplastic Problem
2. The Behavior of the Solution in the Viscoelastic Case
3. An Approach to Perfect Plasticity
4. Dynamic Processes for Rate-type Elastic-Viscoplastic Materials with Internal State Variables
5. Other Functional Methods in the Study of Dynamic Problems
6. Perturbations of Homogeneous Simple Shear and Strain Localization
PART V: The Flow of the Bingham Fluid with Friction
1. Boundary Value Problems for the Bingham Fluid with Friction
2. The Blocking Property of the Solution
3. A Numerical Approach
APPENDIX
1. Elements of Linear Analysis
2. Elements of Non-linear Analysis
3. Evolution Equations in Banach Spaces
4. Some Numerical Methods and Complements