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Viscoplasticity

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Synonyms

Creep plasticity; Rate-dependent plasticity; Rate-sensitive plasticity

Definition

Viscoplasticity is the theory which describes the rate-dependent (rate-sensitive) plastic behavior of solids. Rate dependence should be understood as a material sensitivity to rate of the deformation induced by external loads or shortly as a sensitivity to rate of external loads. It is important that rate-independent plastic response can be obtained as a limit case of viscoplastic flow. Furthermore, viscoplasticity belongs to implicit nonlocal models (Sumelka and Lodygowski, 2017) and can also be interpreted as the regularization of rate-independent flow (Simo and Hughes, 1997). Another important property is the dispersive nature of viscoplastic waves, what is crucial from the point of view of strain localization phenomena (Glema, 2004). In consequence, viscoplastic material shows not only instantaneous permanent deformation, due to applied loads, but undergoes also a creep flow.

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  1. Institute of Structural Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, Poznan, Poland

    Wojciech Sumelka & Tomasz Łodygowski

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  1. Institut für Mechanik, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Institut für Mechanik, Magdeburg, Germany

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  2. Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Griffith School of Engineering Griffith University (Gold Coast Campus), Southport, QLD, Australia

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  1. Institute of Applied Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Cracow University of Technology (CUT), Cracow, Poland

    Błażej Skoczeń

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Sumelka, W., Łodygowski, T. (2018). Viscoplasticity. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_226-1

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