Isotropic Plastic Softening Material

Constitutive Law

This MPM Material is an isotropic, elastic-plastic material that can also develop aniostropic damage. The material is available only in OSParticulas.

In the absense of damage, this material is identical to an Isotropic, Elastic-Plastic Material. In the absence of plasticity, this material is identical to an Isotropic Softening Material. If conditions allow, the material can develop both plasticity and damage with softening. Note that if plastic yield properties are below damage initiation stress, the material may have never reach stress to cause damage. But, if the plastic properties had hardening, the material can yield first and then start damage after hardening allows stresses to reach stress for initiation of damage.

Material Properties

For material properties, combine all options available to an Isotropic, Elastic-Plastic Material and to an Isotropic Softening Material. This material must, however, use large rotation mode (as is also required for an Isotropic Softening Material).

Property	Description	Units	Default
(Isotropic Properties)	Enter all properties needed to define the underlying isotropic material response	varies	varies
(Isotropic, Elastic-Plastic Properties)	Enter yield properties and a hardening law	varies	varies
(Isotropic Softening Material)	Enter damage properties for initiation and for softening laws	varies	varies
(other)	Properties common to all materials	varies	varies

History Variables

The chosen hardening law will have at least one history variable and will start with history variable number 1. After the hardening law history variables, the remaining variables will be for the Isotropic Softening Material material. The softening history variable will be offset by the number of hardening law history variables. In addition, the softening history variables will have three additional variables for three components of cracking strains in the crack axis system corresponding to normal and shear crack opening displacements. By number after Isotropic Softening Material history variables, the extra history variables are:

1. ε_c,xx or x direction cracking strain normal to crack in the crack axis system
2. γ_c,xy or x-y direction shear cracking strain in the crack axis system
3. γ_c,xz or x-z direction shear cracking strain in the crack axis system

This material also tracks sum of plastic strain and cracking strain which can be saved by using the plasticstrain archiving option. The total plastic strain is archived in the global axis system.

If you also archive the damagenormal, you will be able to plot a vector along the crack-opening displacement vector.

Examples

Material "isosoft","Isotropic Softening Material",50
  E 1000
  nu .33
  a 60
  rho 1
  largeRotation 1
  Initiation MaxPrinciple
  sigmac 30
  tauc 20
  SofteningI Linear
  I-Gc 10000
  SofteningII Linear
  II-Gc 10000
  Hardening Linear
  yield 20
  Ep 200

Done