A simple model for viscous regularization of elasto-plastic constitutive laws with softening

An overlay-type rheological model is presented, which is used to introduce viscosity in inviscid elasto-plastic material laws with softening, in order to reduce the mesh-dependency of Finite Element solutions. This model is intended to be an alternative to the well-known visco-plastic formulations o...

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Main Author: Silva, V. Dias da (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10316/8152
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:estudogeral.sib.uc.pt:10316/8152