Global constitutive behaviour of periodic assemblies of inelastic contact bodies

摘要

This work attempts to capture the macroscopic behaviour of inelastic bodies in contact by means of a numerical homogenised constitutive relation. The generality of the algorithm is pointed out, which, in principle, can be applied to any kind of non-linear behaviour affecting the representative volume element. Numerical results are given to demonstrate the efficiency of the algorithm presented in this paper.