A simple implicit scheme for stress response computation in plasticity models (Q1129539)

We propose a numerical method for evaluating the plastic response of a material under the applied load. Focus is confined to plasticity models using a yield surface, and to small strains. The main advantage of the method is that there is no iteration to be done for the yield surface drift correction, and a single-point integration can be applied. To compute the response of a material to a particular loading, an incremental constitutive equation is derived from the plasticity model, and then it is numerically integrated. The discrete consistency condition is used in the proposed model. We show that the method can be applied to several yield conditions and hardening rules. A numerical study is performed to evaluate the performance of the model.