Defect and Material Mechanics

This book contains selected papers from the International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics (ISDMM 15) held in Bremen, Germany, September 14-17, 2015.

The symposium brought together researchers in the areas of the mechanics of defects (cracks, dislocations, inclusions, precipitates, phase boundaries amongst others) and the material (configurational) mechanics in the sense of Eshelby, as a rational framework for the description of driving forces on evolving inhomogeneities and structural changes in continua. Important developments in Configurational Mechanics have been performed in the last years and the symposium aimed at promoting scientific  exchanges between researchers in the field.

Previously published in the International Journal of Fracture, Volume 202:2, 2016

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.