This law defines as elastic-plastic material with thermal softening. When material
approaches melting point, the yield strength and shear modulus reduces to zero.
The melting energy is defined as:図 1.
Where, is cold compression energy and melting temperature is supposed to be constant. If the
internal energy is less than , the shear modulus and the yield strength are defined
by:図 2.
図 3.
Where, , , and are the material parameters. is given by a hardening rule:図 4.
The value of is limited by .
The material pressure is obtained by solving
equation of state related to the material (/EOS) as in
LAW3.