The equations governing the torsion of a prismatic bar of visco-plastic material with Bingham characteristics are derived and solved using the pseudo-functional finite-element method. Results are presented for a square bar, in the form of stress trajectories, for Bingham numbers of 2.0 and 0.33.
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