A rate-independent elastoplastic constitutive model for biological fiber-reinforced composites at finite strains: continuum basis, algorithmic formulation and finite element implementation |
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Authors: | T C Gasser G A Holzapfel |
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Affiliation: | (1) Institute for Structural Analysis – Computational Biomechanics Graz University of Technology, 8010 Graz, Schiesstattgasse 14-B, Austria e-mail: gh@biomech.tu-graz.ac.at, AT |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a rate-independent elastoplastic constitutive model for (nearly) incompressible biological fiber-reinforced
composite materials. The constitutive framework, based on multisurface plasticity, is suitable for describing the mechanical
behavior of biological fiber-reinforced composites in finite elastic and plastic strain domains. A key point of the constitutive
model is the use of slip systems, which determine the strongly anisotropic elastic and plastic behavior of biological fiber-reinforced
composites. The multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient into elastic and plastic parts allows the introduction
of an anisotropic Helmholtz free-energy function for determining the anisotropic response. We use the unconditionally stable
backward-Euler method to integrate the flow rule and employ the commonly used elastic predictor/plastic corrector concept
to update the plastic variables. This choice is expressed as an Eulerian vector update the Newton's type, which leads to a
numerically stable and efficient material model. By means of a representative numerical simulations the performance of the
proposed constitutive framework is investigated in detail.
Received: 12 December 2001 / Accepted: 14 June 2002
Financial support for this research was provided by the Austrian Science Foundation under START-Award Y74-TEC. This support
is gratefully acknowledged. |
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Keywords: | Biomechanics Soft Tissue Elastoplasticity Anisotropy Finite Element Method |
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