AN ANISOTROPIC MODEL OF DAMAGE MECHANICS BASED ON ENDOCHRONIC THEORY OF PLASTICITY

In this paper, an endochronic plastic theory coupled with anisotropic damage is established from the irreversible thermodynamics where the history with plastic deformation and damage is incorporated in the constitutive equations. Experiments have been conducted to verify the proposed theory and a satisfactory correlation between the theoretical results and experimental data has been observed.