Post-critical plastic deformation in incrementally nonlinear materials (Q1612641)

The presented theoretical and numerical analysis concerning the multiple shear bands of incrementallly nonlinear plastic materials is based on time independent constitutive laws as proposed initially by R. Hill, with a convex plastic potential, formulated in the frame of a simple and two-corner theory recently developed by the authors. In order to formulate the solving procedure, the authors resort to Hill's averaging rule allowing to express the boundary conditions fit for a variational treatment of occuring problems. All cases - general, periodic or layered fields-the last one considered by H.Petryk, are taken into account and simultaneously are fulfilled usual integral conditions of continuing equilibrium which are subsequently transcribed in the form of Hill's stationarity principle for a rate energy functional and on the basis of an extended transport theorem due to H. Petryk for admissible moving discontinuities rewritten in an adequate form. In further developments is aimed at a prediction of overall features of post-critical non uniform solutions by determining ''representative'' multi-layered solutions which are essential for the exposed elements and correspond to unweighted volume integrals of of strain and stress, i.e. of average respective histories. Additional conditions are necessary in order to ensure path stability, namely the strong minimal condition of already defined rate energy functional leading to an inequacy for plastic potential integral recquiring an existence condition and involving positiveness of this potential. Applying the Legendre-Hadamard variational condition, a quadratic inequality is obtained including the tangent stiffness vector and path normal strain. The critical instant of shear-band bifurcation is determined using a linearized condition of R. Hill and J. R. Rice, the solution being constructed assuming a variation of velocity gradient over an infinite space with bounds defined by the constitutive cone in the strain-rate space, furnishing also the volume fractions of localization zones. Numerical results obtained by means of an original algorithm independent on the mesh size of finite element analysis for a power-hardening law are plotted into diagrams. In plane strain compression overall features of post-critical deformation path are determined for a layered structure using some stability criteria. A predictor-corrector method is employed in view of a prediction for stability allowing the elaboration of post-critical stress-strain curves and evolution of tangent moduli complemented by computations with a trust-region method furnishing post-critical strain-rates, volume fractions, super-imposed and distributed strains, yield stress, etc. Formation of coarse secondary bands is also investigated.