On periodic homogenization in perfect elasto-plasticity
Gilles A. Francfort, Alessandro Giacomini · Journal of the European Mathematical Society · 2014
The limit behavior of a periodic assembly of a finite number of elasto-plastic phases is investigated as the period becomes vanishingly small. A limit quasi-static evolution is derived through two-scale convergence techniques. It can be thermodynamically viewed as an elasto-plastic model, albeit with an infinite number of internal variables.