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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 48, Issue 13, Pages 1867-1878Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2011.02.016
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Mechanical instability; Second-order work; Elastoplasticity; Non-associativity; Test controllability
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In this paper the onset of instabilities in elastoplastic materials is theoretically studied and a conceptual basis for understanding the physical implications of a loss of uniqueness and/or existence of the incremental response is provided. For this purpose, the concept of test controllability is reinterpreted and mixed stress-strain loading programmes are accounted for. A set of scalar indices, the moduli of instability, related with the inception of an unstable response is introduced and their dependency on the loading programme is explicitly illustrated. The paper shows that the use of these newly defined scalar measures provides support for an alternative definition for mechanical stability, which is closely related with the mathematical notions of existence and uniqueness of the predicted incremental response. In the final section, some mathematical properties of the moduli of instability are discussed, suggesting a novel reinterpretation of other well established theories and providing additional tools for the future application of the proposed framework. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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