Numerical Simulation of Adiabatic Shear Bands and Crack Propagation in Thermoviscoplastic Materials

Plane strain deformations of an elastoplastic material are studied using numerical methods. In the first chapter, a meshless formulation of the static small strain elastic-plastic problem is formulated using the meshless local Petrov-Galerkin method. The code is validated against the small strain pl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lear, Matthew Houck
Other Authors: Engineering Science and Mechanics
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27196
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04242003-122053/