A hyperelastic‐based large strain elasto‐plastic constitutive formulation with combined isotropic‐kinematic hardening using the logarithmic stress and strain measures

Abstract This paper addresses the formulation of a set of constitutive equations for finite deformation metal plasticity. The combined isotropic‐kinematic hardening model of the infinitesimal theory of plasticity is extended to the large strain range on the basis of three main assumptions: (i) the formulation is hyperelastic based, (ii) the stress‐strain law preserves the elastic constants of the infinitesimal theory but is written in terms of the Hencky strain tensor and its elastic work conjugate stress tensor, and (iii) the multiplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient is adopted. Since no stress rates are present, the formulation is, of course, numerically objective in the time integration. It is shown that the model gives adequate physical behaviour, and comparison is made with an equivalent constitutive model based on the additive decomposition of the strain tensor.