We have examined the question of material stability. More specifically, we have probed the conditions under which materials become ``unstable in the sense that given a homogeneous stress field in a materials domain, their constitutive equation allows the onset of a discontinuous, yet compatible, strain field in a finite subdomain (a ``stress band) while the state of stress in the entire domain remains unchanged. The central conclusion is that plastic materials are unstable in all inelastic stress states. This is in the light of the fact that our definition of instability is more stringent than that of \textit{T. Y. Thomas} [Plastic flow and fracture in solids (1961; Zbl 0095.389)] and \textit{R. J. Hill} [J. Mech. Phys. Solids 10, 1-16 (1962; Zbl 0111.377)] where the stress state in the band need only satisfy conditions of continuity normal to the band interface. Detailed results of this investigation in so far as plastic (inelastic) solids are concerned, where the plastic strain rate tensor is proportional to the gradient of a plastic potential with respect to the stress tensor, are summarized.
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- Shear banding and material instability in finitely deformed compressible materials: An example in thin sheets
- Intrinsic instability and nonuniformity of plastic deformation
- On certain problems of deformation-induced material instabilities
- Instability and bifurcation of a nonassociated extended Mises model in the hardening regime
- Ill-posedness of the initial and boundary value problems in non-associative plasticity
- Stress stability at the yield surface
- Prediction of forming limits for porous materials using void-size dependent model and bifurcation approach
- Configurational entropy, non-associativity and uniqueness in granular media
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