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Plastic Potential Theory and Plastic Work

For anisotropic materials, it is a function of the stress components and anisotric tensor parameters (b's)

If incompressibility is assumed, then the plastic potential will be a cylindrical surface, Q, will then determine the shape of the cross section

The actual form of Q is an open question!! But Q is assumed to be the yield function

Then,

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