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September 8, 2024 at 2:29 pm
peteroznewman
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As the plastic strain increments, it is accumulated in NL:EPEQ. This is the accumulated equivalent plastic strain, which is a scalar measure and always monotonically increasing. If you take the difference between two substeps, you are getting the incremental equivalent plastic strain.