Instability phenomena and adiabatic shear band localization in termoplastic flow processes (Q1912992)

The author develops a thermodynamic theory of elastic-viscoplastic models for damaged solids by considering as internal state variables: the residual stress, the porosity or volume fraction parameter as well as a vector state variable, which describes the dissipation effects generated by viscoplastic phenomena only. The evolution equations for internal state variables and the Maxwell-Cattaneo law for the heat flux vector have been proposed in a form containing the Lie derivative of the appropriate spatial fields with respect to a special velocity field. A mathematical description of thermodynamic flow processes as well as thermodynamic inviscid elastic-plastic flow processes is given. The general discussion of the instability phenomena in elastic flow processes, proposed by the author, is based on the existence and stability of a solution to the abstract Cauchy problem and on the Lyapunov definition of the instability. The stability property is investigated based on the application of nonlinear semi-group methods and the analysis of continuity of evolution operators. The author analyzes the problem of propagation of the acceleration waves, namely for an adiabatic process, in order to investigate the intrinsic mathematical structure of the thermodynamic inelastic processes. Criteria for adiabatic shear band localization of plastic deformation have been obtained, by assuming that some eigenvalue of the instantaneous adiabatic acoustic tensor for rate independent response is equal to zero. The restrictions on the constitutive material functions and constants which guarantee the existence, uniqueness and well-posedness of the initial problem for an adiabatic process in an elasto-viscoplastic model are discussed, too. The differences between rate dependent response and the rate independent response, obtained as the limit case from the previous one, are also examinated.