The complex three-dimensional elastoplastic bending of a rod with a square cross-section

The complex three-dimensional bending of a long rod (with square cross-section) made of an isotropic ideally plastic and ideally cyclical material is investigated. The bending of the rod occurs due to the action of two moments, applied to its ends in such a way that the longitudinal deformation of the middle fibres of two neighbouring sides is described by a dashed line.