Influence of non-classical elastic-plastic constitutive features on shock wave existence and spectral solutions (Q1207852)

The authors discuss the role of non-classical elastic-plastic constructive features on dynamically moving discontinuities in stress, strain and material velocity. The non-classical behavior studied are non- normality of the plastic strain increment to the yield surface, plastic compressibility to yield, permanent volume change and dependence of the elastic moduli on plastic strain. The classical theory is shown to be valid for a broad class of materials until deviation from normality exceeds a critical level. The authors also present an extended spectral analysis for non-classical materials. This eigen-analysis is used to derive explicit solutions for the permissible speeds at which a jump can travel in the direction for the jump in stress. The conclusion that ``the dependence of the elastic moduli on plastic strain may be treated as an effective non-normality of the plastic strain increment to the yield stress'' leads to the finding that the tangent stiffness tensor becomes non-selfadjoint even when the plastic strain increment is normal to the yield surface.