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This paper presents a ductile damage-gradient based nonlocal and fully coupled elastoplastic constitutive equations by adding a Helmholtz equation to regularize the initial and boundary value problem (IBVP) exhibiting some damage induced softening. First, a thermodynamically-consistent formulation of gradient-regularized plasticity fully coupled with isotropic ductile damage and accounting for mixed non linear isotropic and kinematic hardening is presented. For the sake of simplicity, only a simplified version of this model based on von Mises isotropic yield function and accounting for the single nonlinear isotropic hardening is studied and implemented numerically using an in house FE code. An additional partial differential equation governing the evolution of the nonlocal isotropic damage is added to the equilibrium equations and the associated weak forms derived to define the IBVP (initial and boundary value problem). After the time and space discretization, two algebraic equations: one highly nonlinear associated with the equilibrium equation and the second purely linear associated with the damage non locality equation are obtained. Over a typical load increment, the first equation is solved iteratively thanks to the Newton-Raphson scheme and the second equation is solved directly to compute the nonlocal damageD at each node. All the constitutive equations are "strongly" affected by this nonlocal damage variable transferred to each integration point. Some applications show the ability of the proposed approach to obtain a mesh independent solution for a fixed value of the length scale parameter. Comparisons between fully local and nonlocal solutions are given.

This paper presents a simple damage-gradient based elastoplastic model with non linear isotropic hardening in order to regularize the associated initial and boundary value problem (IBVP). Using the total energy equivalence hypothesis, fully coupled constitutive equations are used to describe the non local damage induced softening leading to a mesh independent solution. An additional partial differential equation governing the evolution of the non local isotropic damage is added to the classical equilibrium equations and associated weak forms derived. This leads to discretized IBVP governed by two algebric systems. The first one, associated with equilibrium equations, is highly non linear and can be solved by an iterative Newton Raphson method. The second one, related to the non local damage, is a linear algebric system and can be solved directly to compute the non local damage variable at each load increment. Two fields, linear interpolation triangular element with additional degree of freedom is terms of the non local damage variable D is constructed. The non local damage variable D is then transferred from mesh nodes to the quadrature (or Gauss) points to affect strongly the elastoplastic behavior. Two simple 2D examples are worked out in order to investigate the ability of proposed approach to deliver a mesh independent solution in the softening stage.

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