1. Preface

   • C. Dascalu
   • G. A. Maugin

   Preface 04 March 2008 Pages: 1 - 1

2. Reciprocity in fracture and defect mechanics

   • R. Kienzler

   Original Paper 10 October 2007 Pages: 3 - 11

3. Configurational forces and gauge conditions in electromagnetic bodies

   • Carmine Trimarco

   Original Paper 06 October 2007 Pages: 13 - 19

4. The anti-symmetry principle for quasi-static crack propagation in Mode III

   • Gerardo E. Oleaga

   Original Paper 28 September 2007 Pages: 21 - 33

5. Configurational balance and entropy sinks

   • Marcelo Epstein

   Original Paper 28 September 2007 Pages: 35 - 43

6. Application of invariant integrals to the problems of defect identification

   • Robert V. Goldstein
   • Efim I. Shifrin
   • Pavel S. Shushpannikov

   Original Paper 09 October 2007 Pages: 45 - 54

7. On application of classical Eshelby approach to calculating effective elastic moduli of dispersed composites

   • K. B. Ustinov
   • R. V. Goldstein

   Original Paper 30 October 2007 Pages: 55 - 66

8. Material forces in finite elasto-plasticity with continuously distributed dislocations

   • Sanda Cleja-Ţigoiu

   Original Paper 16 October 2007 Pages: 67 - 81

9. Distributed dislocation approach for cracks in couple-stress elasticity: shear modes

   • P. A. Gourgiotis
   • H. G. Georgiadis

   Original Paper 06 November 2007 Pages: 83 - 102

10. Bifurcation of equilibrium solutions and defects nucleation

    • Claude Stolz

    Original Paper 26 October 2007 Pages: 103 - 107

11. Theoretical and numerical aspects of the material and spatial settings in nonlinear electro-elastostatics

    • Duc Khoi Vu
    • Paul Steinmann

    Original Paper 30 October 2007 Pages: 109 - 116

12. Energy-based r-adaptivity: a solution strategy and applications to fracture mechanics

    • Michael Scherer
    • Ralf Denzer
    • Paul Steinmann

    Original Paper 24 October 2007 Pages: 117 - 132

13. Variational design sensitivity analysis in the context of structural optimization and configurational mechanics

    • Daniel Materna
    • Franz-Joseph Barthold

    Original Paper 23 November 2007 Pages: 133 - 155

14. An anisotropic elastic formulation for configurational forces in stress space

    • Anurag Gupta
    • Xanthippi Markenscoff

    Original Paper 30 October 2007 Pages: 157 - 161

15. Conservation laws, duality and symmetry loss in solid mechanics

    • Huy Duong Bui

    Original Paper 30 October 2007 Pages: 163 - 172

16. Phase field simulation of domain structures in ferroelectric materials within the context of inhomogeneity evolution

    • Ralf Müller
    • Dietmar Gross
    • B. X. Xu

    Original Paper 27 November 2007 Pages: 173 - 180

17. An adaptive singular finite element in nonlinear fracture mechanics

    • Ralf Denzer
    • Michael Scherer
    • Paul Steinmann

    Original Paper 13 November 2007 Pages: 181 - 190

18. Moving singularities in thermoelastic solids

    • Arkadi Berezovski
    • Gérard A. Maugin

    Original Paper 13 November 2007 Pages: 191 - 198

19. Dislocation tri-material solution in the analysis of bridged crack in anisotropic bimaterial half-space

    • T. Profant
    • O. Ševeček
    • T. Vysloužil

    Original Paper 12 December 2007 Pages: 199 - 217

20. Study of the simple extension tear test sample for rubber with Configurational Mechanics

    • Erwan Verron

    Original Paper 28 November 2007 Pages: 219 - 225

21. Stress-driven diffusion in a deforming and evolving elastic circular tube of single component solid with vacancies

    • Chien H. Wu

    Original Paper 07 December 2007 Pages: 227 - 234

22. Mode II intersonic crack propagation in poroelastic media

    • Enrico Radi
    • Benjamin Loret

    Original Paper 21 December 2007 Pages: 235 - 267

23. Material forces for crack analysis of functionally graded materials in adaptively refined FE-meshes

    • Rolf Mahnken

    Original Paper 04 March 2008 Pages: 269 - 283

24. A multiscale approach to damage configurational forces

    • C. Dascalu
    • G. Bilbie

    Original Paper 04 March 2008 Pages: 285 - 294