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Globally stable quasistatic evolution in plasticity with softening

TitleGlobally stable quasistatic evolution in plasticity with softening
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsDal Maso, G, DeSimone, A, Mora, MG, Morini, M
JournalNetw. Heterog. Media 3 (2008) 567-614
Abstract

We study a relaxed formulation of the quasistatic evolution problem in the context of small strain associative elastoplasticity with softening. The relaxation takes place in spaces of generalized Young measures. The notion of solution is characterized by the following properties: global stability at each time and energy balance on each\\ntime interval. An example developed in detail compares the solutions obtained by this method with the ones provided by a vanishing viscosity approximation, and shows that only the latter capture a decreasing branch in the stress-strain response.

URLhttp://hdl.handle.net/1963/1965

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