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## Optimal control of perfect plasticity part I: Stress tracking

 TU Dortmund, Faculty of Mathematics, Vogelpothsweg 87, 44227 Dortmund, Germany

* Corresponding author: Christian Meyer

Received  August 2020 Revised  November 2021 Early access  March 2021

Fund Project: This research was supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under grant number ME 3281/9-1 within the priority program Non-smooth and Complementarity-based Distributed Parameter Systems: Simulation and Hierarchical Optimization (SPP 1962)

The paper is concerned with an optimal control problem governed by the rate-independent system of quasi-static perfect elasto-plasticity. The objective is to optimize the stress field by controlling the displacement at prescribed parts of the boundary. The control thus enters the system in the Dirichlet boundary conditions. Therefore, the safe load condition is automatically fulfilled so that the system admits a solution, whose stress field is unique. This gives rise to a well defined control-to-state operator, which is continuous but not Gâteaux differentiable. The control-to-state map is therefore regularized, first by means of the Yosida regularization resp. viscous approximation and then by a second smoothing in order to obtain a smooth problem. The approximation of global minimizers of the original non-smooth optimal control problem is shown and optimality conditions for the regularized problem are established. A numerical example illustrates the feasibility of the smoothing approach.

Citation: Christian Meyer, Stephan Walther. Optimal control of perfect plasticity part I: Stress tracking. Mathematical Control & Related Fields, doi: 10.3934/mcrf.2021022
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Mora, Quasistatic evolution problems for linearly elastic-perfectly plastic materials, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 180 (2006), 237-291.  doi: 10.1007/s00205-005-0407-0.  Google Scholar [6] K. Gröger, A $W^{1, p}$-estimate for solutions to mixed boundary value problems for second order elliptic differential equations, Math. Ann., 283 (1989), 679-687.  doi: 10.1007/BF01442860.  Google Scholar [7] T. Gudi and R. Ch. Sau, Finite element analysis of the constrained Dirichlet boundary control problem governed by the diffusion problem, ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 26 (2020), Paper No. 78, 19 pp. doi: 10.1051/cocv/2019068.  Google Scholar [8] W. Han and B. D. Reddy, Plasticity: Mathematical Theory and Numerical Analysis, Second edition, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 9. Springer, New York, 2013. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5940-8.  Google Scholar [9] R. Herzog and C. 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Hughes, Computational Inelasticity, Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, 7. Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998.  Google Scholar [20] U. Stefanelli, D. Wachsmuth and G. Wachsmuth, Optimal control of a rate-independent evolution equation via viscous regularization, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S, 10 (2017), 1467-1485.  doi: 10.3934/dcdss.2017076.  Google Scholar [21] P.-M. Suquet, Sur les équations de la plasticité: Existence et régularité des solutions, Journal de Mécanique, 20 (1981), 3–39.  Google Scholar [22] R. Temam, Mathematical Problems in Plasticity, Courier Dover Publications, 2018.  Google Scholar [23] G. Wachsmuth, Optimal Control of Quasistatic Plasticity, PhD thesis, TU Chemnitz, 2011. Google Scholar [24] G. 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Legend; values in $\big[{ \rm{GPa}}\big]$
Evolution of $|\sigma(x,t)|_F$
">Figure 3.  Zoom to the left part of the beam from the left column of Figure 2
Comparison of the numerical results for different values of $\lambda$
 $\lambda$ iteration $\langle {g_h} , {-g_h} \rangle_{H^1_0( \mathcal{X}_c)}$ $\frac{F_\delta(\ell_h - \tau \,g_h) - F_\delta(\ell_h)}{\tau}$ err $\operatorname{dist}_ \mathcal{K}$ 0.001 100 -4.7174e-07 -4.8520e-07 0.027751 0.00048 0.01 25 -2.0089e-07 -2.0869e-07 0.037369 0.00192 0.1 33 -2.4687e-07 -2.5552e-07 0.033854 0.01781 1 58 -2.1643e-07 -2.1790e-07 0.006773 0.13652 10 100 -2.0106e-06 -2.0122e-06 0.000833 0.62584 100 62 -2.4884e-07 -2.4876e-07 0.000338 5.31148
 $\lambda$ iteration $\langle {g_h} , {-g_h} \rangle_{H^1_0( \mathcal{X}_c)}$ $\frac{F_\delta(\ell_h - \tau \,g_h) - F_\delta(\ell_h)}{\tau}$ err $\operatorname{dist}_ \mathcal{K}$ 0.001 100 -4.7174e-07 -4.8520e-07 0.027751 0.00048 0.01 25 -2.0089e-07 -2.0869e-07 0.037369 0.00192 0.1 33 -2.4687e-07 -2.5552e-07 0.033854 0.01781 1 58 -2.1643e-07 -2.1790e-07 0.006773 0.13652 10 100 -2.0106e-06 -2.0122e-06 0.000833 0.62584 100 62 -2.4884e-07 -2.4876e-07 0.000338 5.31148
Comparison of the numerical results for different numbers of time steps
 $n_t$ iteration $\langle {g_h} , {-g_h} \rangle_{H^1_0( \mathcal{X}_c)}$ $\frac{F_\delta(\ell_h - \tau \,g_h) - F_\delta(\ell_h)}{\tau}$ err $\operatorname{dist}_ \mathcal{K}$ 8 51 -2.3590e-07 -2.8903e-07 0.183828 0.0478 32 45 -2.4318e-07 -2.5225e-07 0.035941 0.1066 128 58 -2.1643e-07 -2.1790e-07 0.006773 0.1365 512 48 -2.2542e-07 -2.2541e-07 0.000045 0.1318 2048 41 -2.3150e-07 -2.3165e-07 0.000662 0.1339
 $n_t$ iteration $\langle {g_h} , {-g_h} \rangle_{H^1_0( \mathcal{X}_c)}$ $\frac{F_\delta(\ell_h - \tau \,g_h) - F_\delta(\ell_h)}{\tau}$ err $\operatorname{dist}_ \mathcal{K}$ 8 51 -2.3590e-07 -2.8903e-07 0.183828 0.0478 32 45 -2.4318e-07 -2.5225e-07 0.035941 0.1066 128 58 -2.1643e-07 -2.1790e-07 0.006773 0.1365 512 48 -2.2542e-07 -2.2541e-07 0.000045 0.1318 2048 41 -2.3150e-07 -2.3165e-07 0.000662 0.1339
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