Journal
JOURNAL OF ELASTICITY
Volume 62, Issue 3, Pages 171-201Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/A:1012937501411
Keywords
anisotropy; structural tensors; fictitious configurations; large strains
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The main goal of this work is to clarify the relation between two strategies to formulate constitutive equations for orthotropic materials at large strains. On the one hand, the classical approach is based on the incorporation of structural tensors into the free energy function via an enriched set of invariants. On the other hand, a fictitious isotropic configuration is introduced which renders an anisotropic, undeformed reference configuration via an appropriate linear tangent map. This formulation results in a reduced (with respect to the more general setting based on structural tensors) but nevertheless physically motivated set of invariants which are related to the invariants defined by structural tensors. As a main conceptual advantage standard isotropic constitutive equations can be applied and moreover, due to the reduced set of physically motivated invariants, the numerical treatment within a finite element setting becomes manageable.
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