A simple physics-based constitutive model to describe strain hardening in a wide strain range

It is almost commonplace to say that physics-based constitutive models developed to characterize the mechanical behavior of materials are to be preferred over phenomenological models. However, the constitutive relations offered by physics-based approaches are oftentimes too involved to be handled in finite element (FE) simulations for practical applications. There is a demand for physics-based, yet robust and user-friendly models, and one such …