Fig. 3From: A thermo-elastoplastic self-consistent homogenization method for inter-granular plasticity with application to thermal ratcheting of TATBDiscretization of surface with tangent planes: a shown schematically as 2D unit circle with a standard normal orientation for discretization into 16 equal parts of angle \(2\varphi \) (dotted lines); b surface patch of ellipsoid with associated tangent plane and surface traction vector, \(\varvec{t}\), with normal and tangent parts also shownBack to article page