On uniqueness and localization in elastic-damage materials (Q1321935)

The isotropic elastic-damage behaviour such that the evolution law of the unique scalar internal variable characterizing material damage is associative (``\(d\)-associative'' model) is considered. Two models are investigated, and local criteria for loss of uniqueness of velocity gradients for the local rate problem are established. The critical damage values corresponding to loss of positiveness of the second-order work are explicitly calculated by a constrained minimization process. The critical damage value at localization is calculated for plane-strain bi-extension, confirming the analogy to the non-associative plasticity for the one of two models, the localization being allowed to occur in hardening phase. The other model does not allow the localization occuring in hardening phase, the same being true for the associative plasticity.