A Nonlocal Model for Coupled Damage-Plasticity Incorporating Gradients of Internal State Variables at Multiscales

The thermodynamically consistent formulation and the subsequent numerical implementation of a gradient enhanced continuum coupled damage-plasticity model as a constitutive framework to model ill-posed localization problems is presented. By the introduction of "nonlocal," gradient-enhanced...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dorgan, Robert J.
Other Authors: Yitshak M. Ram
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2006
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04032006-201317/