Bounding approach to the bifurcation point of annular plates with nonassociated flow law subjected to uniform tension at their outer edges (Q1107362)

A bounding approach based on numerical procedure is developed to investigate the bifurcation behavior of nonuniformly stressed solids obeying the nonassociated flow law. An improved lower bound to the bifurcation point is determined by optimizing a positive parameter \(\bar r\) in the linear comparison solid. Accuracy of the obtained lower bound is examined by the upper bound analysis. The nonaxisymmetric bifurcation behavior of pressure-sensitive and dilatant annular plates subjected to uniform tension at their outer edges has been analyzed. The results indicate that the optimization of the paramter \(\bar r\) is essential in achieving considerable improvement of the lower bound to the bifurcation point. Nonassociateness always destabilizes the deformation. Furthermore, the effect of work hardening rate and yield stress on the bifurcation behaviors has been clarified.