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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 48, Issue 18, Pages 2595-2604Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2011.05.019
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Gradient plasticity; Higher-order continua; Size effects; Finite elements
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Many rate-independent models for metals utilize the gradient of effective plastic strain to capture size-dependent behavior. This enhancement, sometimes termed as explicit gradient formulation, requires higher-order tractions to be imposed on the evolving elasto-plastic boundary and the resulting numerical framework is complicated. An implicit scalar gradient model was thus developed in Peerlings [Peerlings, R.H.J., 2007. On the role of moving elastic-plastic boundaries in strain gradient plasticity. Model. Simul. Mater. Sci. Eng. 15, 109-120] that has only C continuity requirements and its implementation is straightforward. However, both explicit and implicit scalar gradient models can be problematic when the effective plastic strains do not have smooth profiles. To address this limitation, an implicit tensorial gradient model is proposed in this paper based on the generalized micromorphic framework It is also demonstrated that the scalar and tensorial implicit gradient models give similar results when the effective plastic strains fluctuate smoothly. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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