On the concept of relative and plastic spins and its implications to large deformation theories. I: Hypoelasticity and vertex-type plasticity (Q1117744)

The concept of relative spin \({\mathbb{W}}_{D/S}\) is introduced to facilitate the formulation of large deformation stress-rate models of inelasticity. Roughly speaking, it is a measure of non-coaxiality between stress and deformation rate of the form \({\mathbb{W}}_{D/S}={\mathbb{W}}- {\mathbb{W}}_ S\) with \({\mathbb{W}}_ S\) and \({\mathbb{W}}\) signifying the angular velocities or spins of the two material frames corresponding to the stress and strain rate, respectively. It is suggested that an objective stress rate be defined with respect to \({\mathbb{W}}_ S\) for use in the constitutive equations and this requires explicit representations for \({\mathbb{W}}_{D/S}\) reflecting the aforementioned non-coaxiality. It is shown that this practice leads conveniently to an elegant generalization of previous proposals resorting to either use of a variety of different spins or considerably complex constitutive equations, in order to dispense with undesirable oscillatory solutions of simple shear problems.