On the energetic formulation of the Gurtin and Anand model in strain gradient plasticity

Alessandro Giacomini

doi:10.3934/dcdsb.2012.17.527

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On the energetic formulation of the Gurtin and Anand model in strain gradient plasticity

Alessandro Giacomini^1,

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Dipartimento di Matematica, Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Via Valotti 9, 25133 Brescia

Received: July 2010

Revised: September 2011

Published: March 2012

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We discuss the energetic formulation of the Gurtin and Anand model (J. Mech. Phys. Solids, 2005) in strain gradient plasticity, and illustrate the related mathematical analysis concerning the existence of quasi-static evolutions.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 35A15, 49J45, 74C05, 74G65.

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