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[Václav Šmilauer <eudoxos@xxxxxxxx>]

>         distance*|F|=work (|F| is already known, it is radius of
>         plasticzone for
>         given sigmaN)? If you do cross product, then you have to
>         compute the
>         norm of it anyway.
> 
> Is the distance to compute energy you are talking about a total or an
> incremental one?
The dissipated energy at that one step; I don't think there is a
difference between incremental and total in this case, since it is just
the energy increment.