Abstract: One of the open questions is the performance of rate-independent versus rate-dependent constitutive formulations when failure is evaluated at the material and the finite-element levels. In the case of rate-independent ...

Abstract: A constitutive formulation is presented that covers the triaxial load‐response spectrum of plain concrete in tension as well as in shear. The elastoplastic concrete model resorts to an isotropic‐hardening description of ...

Abstract: In this work the geometrical method for the assessment of discontinuous bifurcation conditions is extended to encompass gradient-dependent plasticity. To this end, the gradient-dependent localization ...