C0 solid elements for materials with strain gradient effects

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 64, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1400-1414

  Swaddiwudhipong, S ^a   Hua, J ^a   Tho, K K ^a   Liu, Z S ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b INSTITUTE OF HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING   (Singapore)

Author keywords

C0 solid elements; Constitutive relation; Conventional plasticity theory; Material length scale; Strain gradient; Strain hardening

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; STRAIN; STRAIN HARDENING; STRESSES;

CONSTITUTIVE RELATION; CONVENTIONAL PLASTICITY THEORY; MATERIAL LENGTH SCALE; SOLID ELEMENTS; STRAIN GRADIENT;

CONTINUUM MECHANICS;

PLASTICITY; STRAIN HARDENING;

EID: 27644526563     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1425     Document Type: Article

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