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On Plane Dilatational Plasticity
Author(s) -
Berg C. A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
studies in applied mathematics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1467-9590
pISSN - 0022-2526
DOI - 10.1002/sapm1971503193
Subject(s) - plasticity , anisotropy , yield (engineering) , deformation (meteorology) , stress (linguistics) , mechanics , plane (geometry) , flow (mathematics) , materials science , fracture (geology) , flow stress , plane stress , physics , geometry , strain rate , mathematics , composite material , finite element method , thermodynamics , optics , linguistics , philosophy
The plane plastic deformation of a generally anisotropic rigid‐plastic material which possesses a yield condition dependent upon mean triaxial stress and which, through the classical associated flow rule, exhibits plastic dilatation, is considered. This model is used to represent the behavior of micro‐porous ductile metals in which the micro‐cavities may be strongly aligned due to large prior plastic strains, as for example the material surrounding the tip of an extending notch in a ductile metal. It is shown that the stress and velocity fields are hyperbolic where a line of vanishing extension rate may be found in the plane of deformation, and that the characteristics of both the stress and velocity fields coincide with the lines of vanishing extension rate. Coincidence of the characteristics of stress and velocity fields in general anisotropic plastic bodies seems not to have been expected in earlier writings, but is a natural consequence of the associated flow rule. Simple means of determining whether a given stress state at yield lies in a hyperbolic or elliptic field are discussed. The role of characteristics in providing ductile fracture nuclei is discussed.