“…A large number of specialized forms of these modern unified viscoplastic models (e.g., isotropic or anisotropic, fully associative or non-associative, isothermal or non-isothermal, etc.) have been successfully applied to different metals (Valanis, 1966;Germain et al, 1983;Lemaitre and Chaboche, 1990;Robinson and Duffy, 1990;Robinson et al, 1987;Freed and Walker, 1993;Simo and Taylor, 1986;Abed and Voyiadjis, 2005;Khan et al, 2006;Ganapathysubramanian and Zabaras, 2005;Hashiguchi et al, 2005;Colak, 2005;Menzel et al, 2005).…”