The role of nonlinear hardening/softening in probabilistic elasto-plasticity

International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 953-975

  Sett, Kallol ^a   Jeremić, Boris ^a   Kavvas, M Levent ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasto plasticity; Fokker Planck Kolmogorov equation; Probability theory

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN; STRESSES;

FOKKER-PLANCK-KOLMOGOROV EQUATION; NONLINEAR HARDENING; NONLINEAR SOFTENING;

ELASTOPLASTICITY;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELASTOPLASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STRAIN; STRESSES;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATION; ELASTOPLASTICITY; EULERIAN ANALYSIS; HARDENING; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; SOFTENING; STRESS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248229304     PISSN: 03639061     EISSN: 10969853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nag.571     Document Type: Article

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