Finite-strain thermo-viscoplasticity for case-hardening steels over a wide temperature range
The aim of this work is the development of a thermodynamically consistent fully coupled thermo-viscoplastic material model for metals undergoing finite deformations. A multiplicative split of the deformation gradient into a thermal, an elastic and a plastic part is introduced, where isotropic thermal expansion and isochoric plastic deformation are assumed. The model is based on a decomposition of
