In this paper we study the twist disclination within the elastoplastic defect theory. Using the stress function method, we found exact analytical solutions for all characteristic fields of a straight twist disclination in an infinitely extended linear isotropic medium. The elastic stress, elastic strain and displacement have no singularities at the disclination line. We found modified stress fu...

The quasi-static viscoplastic resp. elastoplastic evolution problem with isotropic or kinematic hardening is considered with emphasis on optimal convergence and adapted mesh-refining in the spatial discretization. Within one time-step of an implicit time-discretization, the finite element method leads to a minimisation problem for non-smooth convex functions on discrete subspaces. For piecewise...

We have studied experimentally and theoretically the response of randomly folded hyperelastic and elastoplastic sheets on the uniaxial compression loading and the statistical properties of crumpling networks. The results of these studies reveal that the mechanical behavior of randomly folded sheets in the one-dimensional stress state is governed by the shape dependence of the crumpling network ...