Abstract

Finite deformation plasticity often involves the multiplicative split of the deformation gradient into an elastic and plastic part. Motivated by observations in physics, the plastic part is assumed to be volume preserving, i.e., the plastic part of the deformation gradient is unimodular. In order to not accumulate errors, in the best case, one fulfills this constraint exactly to obtain accurate results (see, e.g., [3]). While other approaches where pursued as well, many authors therefore adopted the use of the exponential map, which is a geometric integrator preserving the plastic incompressibility. However, it's computation is not straightforward and performing the eigenvalue decomposition and it's linearization for the exponential function is numerically elaborate. Therefore, in this work, a new approach which also exactly preserves the incompressibility constraint is developed. It makes use of a projection of all symmetric tensors onto the manifold of unimodular tensors. The proposed method is compared to models utilizing the exponential map in numerical experiments.

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Published on 11/03/21
Submitted on 11/03/21

Volume 700 - Numerical Methods and Algorithms in Science and Engineering, 2021
DOI: 10.23967/wccm-eccomas.2020.252
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA license

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