Variational Characterization of the Effective Yield Set in Polycrystal
Plasticity
Marian Bocea
North Dakota State University
Department of mathematics
North Dakota State University
Department of mathematics
marian.bocea@ndsu.edu
Abstract: The effective yield set in several models from
Polycrystal Plasticity is characterized by means of variational principles in
L-infinity associated to supremal functionals obtained as Gamma-limits of
power-law functionals acting on fields subject to constant rank differential
constraints.