Using of Anisotropic Continuum Damage Mechanics to Describe Yield Surface Distortion

Abstract

In this paper, yield surface distortion was studied by considering the combination of nonlinear kinematic hardening model of Chaboche and a new anisotropic continuum damage evolution model. The constitutive relations for anisotropic damage of elastoplasic materials were developed based on irreversible thermodynamics. The internal state manifold which consists of internal variables to specify the thermodynamic state of solids was described by a 2nd rank symmetric damage tensor, the kinematic hardening tensor and tensor of movement of damage potential surface. In order to describe the damage state, the fictitious continuum domain was considered and the consistent relations between real and fictitious domains were developed. It was indicated that the combination of the Chaboche’s model and model of anisotropic continuum damage leads to the well description of the subsequent yield surface.