Extracting gas from shale rocks is one of the current engineering challenges but offers the
prospect of cheap gas. Part of the development of an effective engineering solution for shale …

Exploring recent developments in continuum mechanics, Configurational Forces:
Thermomechanics, Physics, Mathematics, and Numerics presents the general framework for …

The idea of using material forces also termed configurational forces in a computational
setting is presented. The theory of material forces is briefly recast in the terms of a non-linear …

The theory of configurational forces is briefly recast, together with the underlying balance
laws. It is shown, that in the case of a homogeneous body without body forces the additional …

The paper considers a variational formulation of brittle fracture in elastic solids and proposes
a numerical implementation by a finite element method. On the theoretical side, we outline a …

This paper discusses the role of the material or rather configurational force approach in
elastic–plastic materials with a pre-cracked configuration and gives an overview of some …

We consider a variational formulation of quasi-static brittle fracture and develop a new finite-
element-based computational framework for propagation of cracks in three-dimensional …

It is well known that the application of the conventional J J-integral is connected with severe
restrictions when it is applied for elastic–plastic materials. The first restriction is that the J J …

From an engineering point of view, prediction of fatigue crack nucleation in automotive
rubber parts is an essential prerequisite for the design of new components. We have derived …

This paper studies propagation criteria in three-dimensional fracture mechanics within the
extended finite element framework (XFEM). The crack in this paper is described by a hybrid …