Finite elasto-viscoplastic modeling of polymers including asymmetric effects

Abstract

Asymmetric effects between compression and tension are a pronounced behavior for glassy polymers such as polycarbonate. For its simulation an elasto-viscoplastic framework is formulated within a geometrically nonlinear theory. Here a new approach within the concept of stress mode dependent weighting functions is used, where each material parameter is additively decomposed into a sum of weighted stress mode-related quantities. The characterization of the stress modes is obtained in the octahedral plane of the deviatoric stress space in terms of the mode angle, such that stress mode dependent scalar weighting functions can be constructed. The constitutive equations are formulated for large strains in terms of logarithmic Hencky strains and its work conjugated Hill stresses. The resulting evolution equations are updated using a semi-implicit Euler scheme, and the algorithmic tangent operator is derived for the finite element equilibrium iteration. The numerical implementation is also used to identify the material parameters thus resulting into a good agreement with experimental data. Furthermore, the model is used to simulate the cold drawing processes for a dumbbell-shaped specimen in tension and a perforated strip in compression and tension.