We provide a rigorous justification of the classical linearization approach in plasticity. By taking the small-deformations limit, we prove via Γ -convergence for rate-independent processes that energetic solutions of the quasi-static finite-strain elastoplasticity system converge to the unique strong solution of linearized elastoplasticity.
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Mielke et al. (2013) studied this question.