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Failure of most structural members on the macroscale follows the irreversible heterogeneous microprocesses of time and environment dependent deterioration of materials. The existence of distributed microscopic voids, cavities, or cracks of the size of crystal grains is referred as material damage, whereas the process of void nucleation, growth, and coalescence, which initiates the macrocracks and causes progressive material degradation through strength and stiffness reduction, is called damage evolution (cf. Murakami, 1987; Chaboche, 1988).
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Skrzypek, J.J., Ganczarski, A. (1999). Continuum damage mechanics: basic concepts. In: Modeling of Material Damage and Failure of Structures. Foundations of Engineering Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69637-7_1
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