An energy momentum conserving algorithm using the variational formulation of viscoplastic updates

International audienceIn this paper we use the variational formulation of elasto-plastic updates proposed by Ortiz and Stainier (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 1999; 171:419-444) in the context of consistent time integration schemes. We show that such a formulation is well suited to obtain a general expression Of energy momentum conserving algorithms. Moreover, we present numerical examples that illustrate the efficiency of our developments