Defect and Material Mechanics

Preface.- The driving force on the boundary of a self-similarly expanding Eshelby spherical inclusion.- Coherent energetic interfaces accounting for in-plane degradation.- Thermal shock driven fracture in a structured solid: dynamic crack growth and nucleation.- A real-space and constraint-free phase field model for the microstructure of ferromagnetic shape memory alloys.- On moving thick layer approach for graded damage modeling.- On influence surfaces in material space.- Strength increase during ceramic biomaterial-induced bone regeneration: a micromechanical study.- Exact continuum interpolation of the linear chain with hyper-pre-stress.- Chemical affinity tensor and chemical reaction front propagation: theory and FE-simulations.- Delamination growth in buckled composite struts.- Energy release rate and criticality of multiscale defects kinetics.- Modelling and simulation of cyclic thermomechanical behaviour of NiTi wires using a weak discontinuity approach.