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A thermomechanical anisotropic model for shock loading of elastic-plastic and elastic-viscoplastic materials with application to jointed rock

Journal Article · · Computational Mechanics
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  1. Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa (Israel)
  2. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

Here, a large deformation thermomechanical model is developed for shock loading of a material that can exhibit elastic and inelastic anisotropy. Use is made of evolution equations for a triad of microstructural vectors mi(i=1,2,3) which model elastic deformations and directions of anisotropy. Specific constitutive equations are presented for a material with orthotropic elastic response. The rate of inelasticity depends on an orthotropic yield function that can be used to model weak fault planes with failure in shear and which exhibits a smooth transition to isotropic response at high compression. Moreover, a robust, strongly objective numerical algorithm is proposed for both rate-independent and rate-dependent response. The predictions of the continuum model are examined by comparison with exact steady-state solutions. Also, the constitutive equations are used to obtain a simplified continuum model of jointed rock which is compared with high fidelity numerical solutions that model a persistent system of joints explicitly in the rock medium.

Research Organization:
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
AC52-07NA27344
OSTI ID:
1375299
Report Number(s):
LLNL-JRNL--678007
Journal Information:
Computational Mechanics, Journal Name: Computational Mechanics Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 58; ISSN 0178-7675
Publisher:
SpringerCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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