Dear team,
I am looking for a method to predict the onset of necking in a material. I was expecting skewed distribution of the von mises/equivalent strain near the UTS (shown in the attachment) at each quadrature point, but it came out to be normally distributed with a very small spread (also attached). Is there any reason I cannot obtain the distribution of equivalent strain corresponding to necking?
I'm using the DeformationGradient application and doing rate-independent tensile deformation.
Also, are there any other ways to make this prediction of necking in PRISMS?
I am also attaching a paper for context.