Theory of incremental motion in a body with initial elasto-plastic deformation (Q1202506)

(From the authors' abstract.) A theory of incremental deformation is developed for a body with initial stress and strain, valid for elastic and plastic pre-deformation. The superimposed motion is hyperelastic. The paper presents the constitutive equation, relating a measure of incremental stress to incremental strain and the momentum equations referred to the prestrained initial configuration of the body. The latter is linearized with respect to the displacement field of the superimposed motion. For general nonlinear pre-deformation, the constitutive theory of an anisotropic body may be based on the assumed strain energy that is an isotropic function of the Green strain tensor and a number of material directors of unit length. For bodies with elastoplastic prestrain and prestress, an elastic constitutive relation that depends on the plastic pre-deformation and the deformation from a relaxed state is postulated. Imposing the requirements of invariance with respect to rotations of the plastic pre-deformation and using the objective rule, it is shown that the constitutive function of stress must be an isotropic function of its arguments. This leads to a new theory of acoustoelasticity for an elasto- plastically prestrained material with anisotropic natural state by incorporating materially fixed unit directors as independent variables in the constitutive equations. No specific problem is solved to illustrate the theory.