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Strain-Space Solution for the Elasto-plastic Analysis of Adhesively Bonded Single Lap Joint B.M. Dawari and P.C. Pandey Abstract The inelastic phenomenon in multi-functional materials would be the topic of investigation in years to come. The two schools of plasticity based on con- ventional stress-space formulation and the evolving strain-space formulation would be the candidate concepts to be extrapolated to multi-functional materials. This work presents strain-space formulation and analysis of adhesively bonded single lap joint to predicts elasto-plastic behaviour. In strain-space formulation, yield cri- teria are functions of strain invariants whereas loading-unloading criteria is based on I’lyushin’s postulate. Even though, it is equivalent to later one for work-hardening materials; in case of elastic-perfectly plastic and work-softening materials it has been proved computationally quite effective. The Drucker-Prager yield criterion in strain-space is adopted for adhesive to reflect the pressure sensitive nature of the ma- terial. Example calculations show that the predicted adhesive shear and peel profiles are well in agreement with previously published stress-space solutions. Keywords Adhesive Bonded joints Drucker-Prager yield function Nonlinear finite element analysis Strain-space 1 Introduction Even though, stress space formulation is commonly accepted in engineering applications, it has certain disadvantages. Naghdi and Trapp [1] pointed out two significant shortcomings of the stress space formulation that restricts the theory’s usefulness: (1) A plasticity theory based on stress space cannot be directly reduced to represent the case of an elastic-perfectly plastic material, so a separate treatment is required. (2) There is some confusion in the formulation of the loading-unloading criteria in stress space for unstable or work-softening materials. A strain space formu