“…Thus, it is concluded that many practical problems, which involve complex geometries as well as complex thermomechanical loading histories such as those arising in hot gaspath components of gas turbine engines and rocket engines, have to be solved in the environment of such numerical solution methodologies which could make these viscoplastic models adaptable for realistic structural and life analyses of this kind of structural components. Some of these numerous viscoplastic models have been proposed by Hart (1970), Hart et al (1976), Robinson and Swindeman (1982), Chan et al (1988) and Chaboche (1986) and have been tested for uniaxial time varying loading on various metals and alloys and the correlation between theory and experiment has generally been found to be very good and shown to faithfully represent experimentally observed material behavior in a variety of applications. Mukherjee (1977Mukherjee ( , 1979, , Morjaria et al ( , 1980c, Morjaria and Mukherjee (1981), Arya (1989Arya ( , 1990, Arya and Kaufman (1989) and Arya and Arnold (1992) presented boundary element methodologies (BEM) and finite element methodologies (FEM) for the solution of boundary value problems with material behavior governed by Hart's and Robinson's constitutive viscoplastic models, respectively.…”