On kinematic hardening and large plastic deformations (Q1088469)

The model of physically linear kinematic hardening is investigated in view of its convenient generalization to large strains. This generalization implies the definiton of differential operators in the form of objective tensor derivatives. It has been shown in the literature that an inconvenient choice of the time derivatives leads to a non- monotonic stress strain behavior for the case of simple shear. In this paper, it is shown that this is also true if an additional ''damping term'' is introduced into the evolution equation. Thus, the non-monotonic behavior should be avoided by a proper choice of variables and time derivatives.