AN EFFICIENT AND ACCURATE ALTERNATIVE TO SUBINCREMENTATION FOR ELASTIC PLASTIC ANALYSIS BY THE FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In this paper a new and efficient alternative to subincrementation is developed for analysis of solid media with rate independent elastic-plastic material behavior. This alternative method is not unlike the subincrementation procedure in that it represents an Euler integration of the nonlinear constitutive equations. However, it takes advantage of the fact that the Euler integration procedure assumes proportional loading steps so that when the uniaxial stress-strain curve is idealized as a piecewise linear relation very large forward integration steps give accurate results. The new procedure, which we call the method, is equally appropriate for cyclic loading with combined isotropic and kinematic hardening. However, due to the nonuniqueness of the monotonic uniaxial stress-strain relation in rate dependent media, the method is not appropriate for use in viscoplastic media. Although the algorithm deals only with the evaluation of a classical plasticity based constitutive law, numerical results are reported herein for an assortment of problems by the finite element method. It is shown via these results that the method discussed herein provides not only accuracy which is superior to the subincrementation method, but the resulting algorithm also shows improved numerical efficiency. 1985.

published proceedings

  • COMPUTERS & STRUCTURES

author list (cited authors)

  • GROVES, S. E., ALLEN, D. H., & HAISLER, W. E.

citation count

  • 3

complete list of authors

  • GROVES, SE||ALLEN, DH||HAISLER, WE

publication date

  • January 1985