P. Le1, N. Mai-Duy1, T. Tran-Cong1, G. Baker2
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.2, pp. 129-150, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.129
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 More >