TY - JOUR T1 - Quasistatic evolution in non-associative plasticity - the cap models JF - SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis 44, nr. 1 (2012) 245-292 Y1 - 2012 A1 - Jean-Francois Babadjian A1 - Gilles A. Francfort A1 - Maria Giovanna Mora KW - Elasto-plasticity AB - Non-associative elasto-plasticity is the working model of plasticity for soil and rocks mechanics. Yet, it is usually viewed as non-variational. In this work, we prove a contrario the existence of a variational evolution for such a model under a natural capping assumption on the hydrostatic stresses and a less natural mollification of the stress admissibility constraint. The obtained elasto-plastic evolution is expressed for times that are conveniently rescaled. PB - SIAM UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4139 U1 - 3879 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER -