aFaculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Abstract:
A new strain gradient plasticity theory is formulated to accommodate more than one material length parameter. The theory is an extension of the classical J2 flow theory of metal plasticity to the micron scale. Distinctive features of the proposed theory as compared to other existing theories are the simplicities of mathematical formulation, numerical implementation and physical interpretation.