Temporal nature of plasticity in the design of materials

Abstract

A full spectrum of materials responses to dynamic loading and observed temporal effects of plasticity from a united viewpoint are analyzed. The relaxation model of plasticity with characteristic time idea is capable to effectively predict the instability of the stress-strain dependencies on strain rates. It is shown that empirical models cannot simultaneously simulate the appearance and disappearance of the yield drop unlike the relaxation model of plasticity presented in the paper