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invariants

Derivatives of the invariants of a tensor

Submitted by Biswajit Banerjee on

When you first start learning finite deformation plasticity, you will run into a plastic flow rate that can be derived from a flow potential such that 

(1)

whereis the Cauchy stress.  For an isotropic material with scalar internal variables, the plastic
flow potential can be assumed to have the form