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Title Lagrangian and Eulerian Forms of Finite Plasticity
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Author de Vera, Giorgio Tantuan
Publication Date 2016
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By
Giorgio Tantuan De Vera
A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the
requirements for the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy
in
Engineering – Mechanical Engineering
in the
Graduate Division
of the
University of California, Berkeley
Committee in charge:
Professor James Casey, Co-chair Professor George C. Johnson, Co-chair Professor Oliver M. O’Reilly Professor Filippos Filippou
Fall 2016 Lagrangian and Eulerian Forms of Finite Plasticity
Copyright 2016
by
Giorgio Tantuan De Vera Abstract Lagrangian and Eulerian Forms of Finite Plasticity by Giorgio Tantuan De Vera
Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering University of California, Berkeley Professor James Casey, Co-chair
Over the past half century, much work has been published on the theory of elastic-plastic materials undergoing large deformations. However, there is still disagreement about certain basic issues. In this dissertation, the strain-based Lagrangian theory developed by Green, Naghdi and co-workers is re-assessed. Its basic structure is found to be satisfactory. For the purpose of applications, the theory is recast in Eulerian form. Additionally, a novel three-factor multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient is employed to define a unique intermediate configuration. The resulting theory of finite plasticity contains an elastic strain tensor measured from the intermediate stress-free configuration. The consti- tutive equations involve the objective stress rate of the rotated Cauchy stress, which can be expressed in terms of the rate of deformation tensor. In their general forms, the Lagrangian theory can be converted into the Eulerian theory and vice versa. Because the Green-Naghdi theory has a strain measure that represents the difference between total strain and plastic strain, rather than representing elastic strain, it does not lend itself to a physically realistic linearization for the case of small elastic deformations accompanied by large plastic defor- mations. The proposed theory is well suited to describe this case as it can be linearized about the intermediate configuration while allowing the plastic deformations to be large. Differences between the linearized Green-Naghdi theory and the new theory are illustrated for uniaxial tension and compression tests.
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i Contents
1 Introduction 1 1.1 The Classical Theory of Plasticity: Infinitesimal Deformation ...... 1 1.2 Finite Plasticity: Theories and Issues from the ’60s ...... 2
2 Deformable Continua 8 2.1 Mathematical Preliminaries ...... 8 2.2 Kinematics and Field Equations ...... 10 2.3 InvarianceRequirements ...... 13 2.4 ElasticSolids ...... 14
3 The Green-Naghdi Theory of Elastic-Plastic Materials 16 3.1 The elastic regions in strain space and stress space ...... 17 3.2 Loadingcriteria...... 19 3.3 Strain hardening response, flow rules and hardening rules ...... 20 3.4 An equivalent set of kinematical measures ...... 22 3.5 A class of elastic-perfectly plastic materials ...... 24
4 Multiplicative Decompositions of the Deformation Gradient 25 4.1 Lee’sdecomposition...... 25 4.2 A three-factor decomposition of F ...... 30 4.3 Analternatethree-factordecomposition ...... 32
5 Fields and Functions on the Intermediate Configuration κ∗ 36 5.1 Yield functions and loading criteria ...... 36 5.2 The rotated Cauchy stress T anditsrate...... 43 5.3 The second Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor S∗ anditsrate...... 46 5.4 Application of the von Mises criterion to the expression of stress rates. . . . 49 5.5 The yield function in E∗ space...... 52 5.6 The loading index in other spaces ...... 55
6 Stress Measures, Their Rates, and Constitutive Equations 57 6.1 The symmetric Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor S ...... 57 6.2 The rotated Cauchy stress tensor T ...... 58