Discussion of coupled elastoplasticity and damage constitutive equations for small and finite deformations

Three small deformation plasticity models taking into account isotropic damage effects are presented and discussed. The models are formulated in the context of irreversible thermodynamics and the internal state variable theory. They exhibit nonlinear isotropic and nonlinear kinematic hardening. The aim of the paper is first to give a comparative study of the three models with reference to homogeneous and inhomogeneous deformations by using a general damage law. Secondly, and this is the main objective of the paper, we generalize the constitutive models to finite deformations by applying a thermodynamical framework based on the Mandel stress tensor. The responses of the obtained finite deformation models are then discussed for loading processes with homogeneous deformations. (C) 2000 Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.