AN IMPLICIT PROJECTION ALGORITHM FOR SIMULTANEOUS FLOW OF PLASTICITY AND DAMAGE IN STANDARD GENERALIZED MATERIALS

Motivated by mechanical analysis of cancellous bone, a 3D constitutive law describing the simultaneous flow of rate-independent plasticity and damage is developed in the framework of thermodynamics of irreversible processes with internal variables. Following the hypothesis of standard generalized materials, a free energy and a dissipation potential are postulated and the associated flow rules derived with the tools of convex analysis. On the computational side, the classical implicit projection (or catching up) algorithm used in plasticity is extended to account for the additional flow of damage. Due to the existence of a dissipation potential, linearization of the incremental algorithm provides a symmetric tangent operator. Numerical resolutions of several boundary value problems and a biomechanical application are presented to illustrate the potential of the constitutive model and demonstrate the quadratic convergence of the algorithm.