Associative coupled thermoplasticity at finite strains: Formulation, numerical analysis and implementation (Q1205662)

This paper presents a complete formulation of a model of coupled associative thermoplasticity at finite strains, addresses in detail the numerical analysis aspects involved in its finite element implementation. On the thermomechanical side, novel aspects of the proposed model of thermoplasticity are (1) the explicit characterization of the plastic (configurational) entropy as an independent internal variable, (2) a thermomechanical extension of the principle of maximum dissipation, (3) the exploitation of this extended principle in the formulation of an associative flow, (4) a new global product formula algorithm, (5) a unified class of local return mapping algorithms, and (6) the formulation of a mixed finite element method in terms of the elastic entropy.