One does not have to look far to observe metals as an engineering material with widespread application. Metals offer the designer a class of materials with a broad range of behaviors. Further, metals are accompanied by a long history of experimental characterization and continuous refinement of techniques for analysis. The ability to describe metal deformation is critical to both the design and the manufacture of metal products. Accurate analysis is realized through the wedding of three engineering disciplines: materials science, mechanical engineering, and computer science. It is the intent of this paper to demonstrate how fruits from these branches of engineering science may be brought together to reveal insight into fundamental aspects of metal deformation-on a scale that bears relevance to industrial application.
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