Defect and Material Mechanics

Preface.- Reciprocity in fracture and defect mechanics.- Configurational forces and gauge conditions in electromagnetic bodies.- The anti-symmetry principle for quasi-static crack propagation in Mode III.- Configurational balance and entropy sinks.- Application of invariant integrals to the problems of defect identification.- On application of classical Eshelby approach to calculating effective elastic moduli of dispersed composites.- Material forces in finite elasto-plasticity with continuously distributed dislocations.- Distributed dislocation approach for cracks in couple-stress elasticity: shear modes.- Bifurcation of equilibrium solutions and defects nucleation.- Theoretical and numerical aspects of the material and spatial settings in nonlinear electro-elastostatics.- Energy-based r-adaptivity: a solution strategy and applications to fracture mechanics.- Variational design sensitivity analysis in the context of structural optimization and configurational mechanics.- An anisotropic elastic formulation for configurational forces in stress space.- Conservation laws, duality and symmetry loss in solid mechanics.- Phase field simulation of domain structures in ferroelectric materials within the context of inhomogeneity evolution.- An adaptive singular finite element in nonlinear fracture mechanics.- Moving singularities in thermoelastic solids.- Dislocation tri-material solution in the analysis of bridged crack in anisotropic bimaterial half-space.- Study of the simple extension tear test sample for rubber with Configurational Mechanics.- Stress-driven diffusion in a deforming and evolving elastic circular tube of single component solid with vacancies.- Mode II intersonic crack propagation in poroelastic media.- Material forces for crack analysis of functionally gradedmaterials in adaptively refined FE-meshes.- A multiscale approach to damage configurational forces.