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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 22
ADVANCES IN FINITE ELEMENT TECHNIQUES
Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper IV.2

Numerical Analysis of Loacalization Phenomena in Ductile and Brittle Materials

T. Lodygowski, M. Lengnick and E. Stein

Institute for Structural and Computational Mechanics, University of Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
T. Lodygowski, M. Lengnick, E. Stein, "Numerical Analysis of Loacalization Phenomena in Ductile and Brittle Materials", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Advances in Finite Element Techniques", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 127-133, 1994. doi:10.4203/ccp.22.4.2
Abstract
The successful numerical analysis of plastic strain localization phenomena for ductile and brittle materials requires the fulfilment of several conditions in accordance with the formulation of the initial boundary value problem (IBVP). Sometimes it is necessary to use the regularization techniques which results in well-posedness of IBVPs. If specific conditions are met, the results obtained in the numerical calculations are free of unexpected mesh sensitivity. In the paper, rate-dependent regularized models of both materials are presented and used to solve practical engineering problems. The mathematical background which could be used to prove the well-posedness of IBVP is discussed.

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