Viscoplastic Deformation Analysis Using the Unified Constitutive Model.

Cyclic Behavior of Beams Based on the Chaboche Unified Viscoplastic Model

In this paper, ratcheting behavior of beams subjected to mechanical cyclic loads at elevated temperature, using the rate dependent Chaboche unified viscoplastic model with combined kinematic and isotropic hardening theory of plasticity, is investigated. A precise and general numerical scheme, using the incremental method of solution, is developed to obtain the cyclic inelastic creep and plastic...

The Variational Formulation of Viscoplastic Constitutive Updates

We present a class of constitutive updates for general viscoplastic solids including such aspects of material behavior as nite elastic and plastic deformations, non-Newtonian viscosity, rate-sensitivity and arbitrary ow and hardening rules. The distinguishing characteristic of the proposed constitutive updates is that, by construction, the corresponding incremental stress-strain relations deriv...

The Variational Formulation of Viscoplastic Constitutive Updates

We present a class of constitutive updates for general viscoplastic solids including such aspects of material behavior as nite elastic and plastic deformations, non-Newtonian viscosity, rate-sensitivity and arbitrary ow and hardening rules. The distinguishing characteristic of the proposed constitutive updates is that, by construction, the corresponding incremental stress-strain relations deriv...

An Enhanced Viscoplastic Constitutive Model for Semi-Solid Materials to Analyze Shear Localization

Semi-solid materials undergo strain localization and shear band formation as a result of granular nature of semi-solid deformation. In the present study, to analyze the shear localization, a unified viscoplastic constitutive model was developed for the homogeneous flow. Then, a linearized analysis of the stability performed by examining the necessary condition for the perturbation growth. For t...

Simulation of long-term consolidation behavior of soft sensitive clay using an elasto-viscoplastic constitutive model