[en] In this paper we use the variational formulation of elasto-plastic updates proposed by Ortiz and Stainier (Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Eng. 1999; 171:419-444) in the context of consistent time integration schemes. We show that such a formulation is well suited to obtain a general expression Of energy momentum conserving algorithms. Moreover, we present numerical examples that illustrate the efficiency of our developments. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley
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