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Elastoplasticity of gradient-polyconvex materials

Analysis of PDEs 2021-09-01 v1

Abstract

We propose a model for rate-independent evolution in elastoplastic materials under external loading, which allows large strains. In the setting of strain-gradient plasticity with multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, we prove the existence of the so-called energetic solution. The stored energy density function is assumed to depend on gradients of minors of the deformation gradient which makes our results applicable to shape-memory materials, for instance.

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@article{arxiv.2012.15325,
  title  = {Elastoplasticity of gradient-polyconvex materials},
  author = {Martin Kružík and Jiří Zeman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.15325},
  year   = {2021}
}
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