@Article{cmc.2007.005.129, AUTHOR = {P. Le, N. Mai-Duy, T. Tran-Cong, G. Baker}, TITLE = {A Numerical Study of Strain Localization in Elasto-Thermo-Viscoplastic Materials using Radial Basis Function Networks}, JOURNAL = {Computers, Materials \& Continua}, VOLUME = {5}, YEAR = {2007}, NUMBER = {2}, PAGES = {129--150}, URL = {http://www.techscience.com/cmc/v5n2/23426}, ISSN = {1546-2226}, ABSTRACT = {This paper presents a numerical simulation of the formation and evolution of strain localization in elasto-thermo-viscoplastic materials (adiabatic shear band) by the indirect/integral radial basis function network (IRBFN) method. The effects of strain and strain rate hardening, plastic heating, and thermal softening are considered. The IRBFN method is enhanced by a new coordinate mapping which helps capture the stiff spatial structure of the resultant band. The discrete IRBFN system is integrated in time by the implicit fifth-order Runge-Kutta method. The obtained results are compared with those of the Modified Smooth Particle Hydrodynamics (MSPH) method and Chebychev Pseudo-spectral (CPS) method.}, DOI = {10.3970/cmc.2007.005.129} }