Editors: | Kongoli F, Bordas S, Estrin Y |
Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
Publication Year: | 2015 |
Pages: | 300 pages |
ISBN: | 978-1-987820-24-9 |
ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
In this work, a finite strain elasto-viscoplastic model coupled to anisotropic damage is developed through a thermodynamics admissible framework. A hyperelastic-based model using the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient tensor into elastic and plastic parts is used and the resulting plastic intermediate configuration is connected with a fictitious undamaged configuration. This work is motivated by the inappropriate kinematical definition of the stress measure work conjugated with the plastic velocity gradient in the effective configuration, i.e. "effective stress", obtained by classical pull-back/push-forward operations. Usually, the pull-back of the Mandel-type stress tensor, resulting from the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient, in the fictitious undamaged configuration leads to effective and nominal stress measures very close to each other. When compared to previously published works, the physical interpretation of the material degradation, represented by a second order tensor, has been enhanced by using a novel definition of the pull-back/push-forward operations which bridge effective and nominal configurations. The emphasis of this work is placed on the description of the interesting properties of the proposed formulation as well as its consequences in a thermodynamics point of view. Within this framework, a specific constitutive model with plastic and damage flow rules deduced from the restrictions imposed by the entropy balance is discussed with an application on an asphalt concrete material where the anisotropic evolution of the damage is highlighted.