Bibliography: pages 316-322. / In this thesis we study the mathematical structure and numerical approximation of two boundary-value problems in small strain elastoplasticity. The first problem, which we call the incremental holonomic problem, is based on a consistent incremental holonomic constitutive law, which in turn derives from the notion of extremal paths in stress and strain space as originally proposed by PONTER & MARTIN (1972); the second problem which we study is the classical rate problem. We show that both problems can be formulated as variational inequalities, with internal variables being included explicitly in the formulation. Corresponding minimisation problems follow naturally from standard results in convex analysis.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uct/oai:localhost:11427/22576 |
| Date | January 1986 |
| Creators | Griffin, Terence Bernard |
| Contributors | Reddy, B Daya |
| Publisher | University of Cape Town, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, Department of Civil Engineering |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral Thesis, Doctoral, PhD |
| Format | application/pdf |
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