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how can the plastic strain be greater than unity?

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moeenhappy

Aerospace
Apr 17, 2015
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Does anyone know how can the plastic strain be greater than unity? Such as in the benchmark manual 3.2.10 Indentation of a crushable foam plate:

As I Know that the formula for True strain is
True Strain = ln(1+nominal strain)
and if we consider a compression process then nominal strain should not be greater than 1 and thus max true strain will be
True Strain = ln(1+1)=ln(2)= 0.69

I know I am confusing somethings here, Kindly correct me

*CRUSHABLE FOAM HARDENING
0.2000E6, 0.0000
0.2577E6, 0.0094
0.2760E6, 0.0258
0.3053E6, 0.0452
0.3267E6, 0.0655
0.3623E6, 0.1084
0.3891E6, 0.1540
0.4250E6, 0.2405
0.4568E6, 0.3812
0.4738E6, 0.4600
0.5170E6, 0.6391
0.5862E6, 0.8570
0.6503E6, 0.9857
0.7470E6, 1.1324
0.9820E6, 1.2965
1.4702E6, 1.4808
2.7262E6, 1.6609
5.3911E6, 1.9000
 
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