A fourth-order gauge-invariant gradient plasticity model for polycrystals based on Kröner's incompatibility tensor

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Abstract: In this paper we derive a novel fourth order gauge-invariant phenomenological model of infinitesimal rate-independent gradient plasticity with isotropic hardening and Kr"oner's incompatibility tensor inc(epsilonp):=Curl[(Curlepsilonp)T], where epsilonp=symp is the symmetric infinitesimal plastic strain tensor and p is the (non-symmetric) infinitesimal plastic distortion. Here, gauge-invariance denotes invariance under diffeomorphic reparametrizations of the reference configuration, suitably adapted to the geometrically linear setting. The model features a defect energy contribution which is quadratic in the tensor inc(epsilonp) and it contains isotropic hardening based on the rate of the symmetric infinitesimal plastic strain tensor dotepsilonp. We motivate the new model by introducing a novel rotational invariance requirement in gradient plasticity, which we call micro-randomness, suitable for the description of polycrystalline aggregates on a mesoscopic scale and not coinciding with classical isotropy requirements. This new condition effectively reduces the increments of the non-symmetric infinitesimal plastic distortion dotp to their symmetric counterpart dotepsilonp. In the polycrystalline case, this condition is a statement about insensitivity to arbitrary superposed grain rotations. We formulate a mathematical existence result for a suitably regularized non-gauge-invariant model. The regularized model is rather invariant under reparametrizations of the reference configuration including infinitesimal conformal mappings.




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