ABSTRACT
The primary objective of engineering plasticity in metal cutting studies is to develop mathematical techniques for determining non-uniform stress and strain distributions. As a result, it is possible to predict the plastic deformation of the workpiece in various circumstances particular to a complex stress state. Although some of the laws that agree satisfactorily with experimental evidence have been established mainly for metals and their alloys, the nonlinearity of the principal laws (and hence the basic equations) inevitably presents considerable mathematical difficulties.
