Standard formulation of elastic-plastic deformation laws (Q1187179)

A very laudable advance in plasticity theory, viz. the formulation of elastic-plastic constitutive relations in some standard form, is undertaken, for large deformations, and including thermomechanical effects. Detailed explanations concerning elastic-plastic material behaviour are given. The effects of different tensor rates in modelling kinematic hardening are analysed numerically under the conditions of an initially isotropic state. Final studies deal with simulating yield behaviour of sheet metals in plane stress.