Numerical Investigation of Large Elastoplastic Strains of Three-Dimensional Bodies

A method of stress—strain analysis of elastoplastic bodies with large displacements, rotations, and finite strains is developed. The incremental loading technique is used within the framework of the arbitrary Lagrangian—Eulerian formulation. Constitutive equations are derived which relate the Jaumann derivative of the Cauchy—Euler stress tensor and the strain rate. The spatial discretization is based on the FEM and multilinear three-dimensional isoparametric approximation. An algorithm of stress—strain analysis of elastic, hyperelastic, and perfectly plastic bodies is given. Numerical examples demonstrate the capabilities of the method and its software implementation __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 36–43, June 2005.