Invariants Used To Describe Yield Surfaces
The first principal invariant of the Cauchy stress, and the second and third principal invariants of the deviatoric part of the Cauchy stress are defined as:
where are the principal values of are the principal values of, and
where is the identity matrix.
A related set of quantities, are usually used to describe yield surfaces for cohesive frictional materials such as rocks, soils, and ceramics. These are defined as
where is the equivalent stress. However, the possibility of negative values of and the resulting imaginary makes the use of these quantities problematic in practice.
Another related set of widely used invariants is which describe a cylindrical coordinate system (the Haigh–Westergaard coordinates). These are defined as:
The plane is also called the Rendulic plane. The angle is called the Lode angle and the relation between and was first given by Nayak and Zienkiewicz in 1972
The principal stresses and the Haigh–Westergaard coordinates are related by
A different definition of the Lode angle can also be found in the literature:
in which case
Whatever definition is chosen, the angle varies between 0 degrees to +60 degrees.
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