Second-order work in barodesy

Second-order work analyses, based on elasto-plastic models, have been frequently carried out leading to the result that failure may occur before the limit yield condition is encountered. In this article, second-order work investigations are carried out with barodesy regarding standard element tests and finite element applications. In barodesy, it was shown—like in hypoplasticity and elasto-plasticity—that second-order work may vanish at stress states inside the critical limit surface. For boundary value problems, an end-to-end shear band of vanishing second-order work marks situations, where failure is imminent.