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Numerical methods and improvements for simulating quasi-static elastoplastic materials

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Jiayin Lü
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Chris H. Rycroft *
DOI:10.1016/j.jcp.2025.113756delete
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Hypo-elastoplasticity is a framework suitable for modeling the mechanics of many hard materials that have small elastic deformation and large plastic deformation. In laboratory tests for these materials the Cauchy stress is often in quasi-static equilibrium. Rycroft et al. discovered a mathematical correspondence between this physical system and the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, and developed a projection method similar to Chorin's projection method (1968) for incompressible Newtonian fluids. Here, we improve the original projection method to simulate quasi-static hypo-elastoplasticity, by making three improvements. First, drawing inspiration from the second-order projection method for incompressible Newtonian fluids, we formulate a second- order in time numerical scheme for quasi-static hypo-elastoplasticity. Second, we implement a finite element method for solving the elliptic equations in the projection step, which provides both numerical benefits and flexibility. Third, we develop an adaptive global time-stepping scheme, which can compute accurate solutions in fewer timesteps. Our numerical tests use an example physical model of a bulk metallic glass based on the shear transformation zone theory, but the numerical methods can be applied to any elastoplastic material.
Keywords:
Elastoplasticity
Chorin-type projection method
Finite element method
Second-order projection method
Adaptive Runge-Kutta method
Adaptive timestepping
Error control

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Journal of Computational Physics
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