Abstract: Many materials of interest contain initial crack‐like defects. Often these cracks are oriented more or less regularly and hence, they contribute to an anisotropic material behavior. We have applied a second‐order tensorial ...

Abstract: In this paper, a three-dimensional penny-shaped isotropic inhomogeneity surrounded by unbounded isotropic matrix in a uniform stress field is studied based on Eshelby’s equivalent inclusion method. ...

Abstract: In this paper, a homogeneous type of kinetic rate laws of local internal variables and its corresponding macroscopic behaviors, are explored within the framework of “normality structures” by ...