Abstract
Kachanov (1958) pioneered the subject of continuum damage mechanics by introducing the concept of effective stress. This concept is based on considering a fictitious undamaged configuration of a body and comparing it with the actual damaged configuration. He originally formulated his theory using simple uniaxial tension. Following Kachanov's work researchers in different fields applied continuum damage mechanics to their areas in fields like brittle materials (Krajcinovic and Foneska, 1981; Krajcinovic, 1988) and ductile materials (Lemaitre, 1984, 1985, 1986; Kachanov, 1986; Murakami, 1988). In the 1990's applications of continuum damage mechanics to plasticity and composite materials have appeared (Voyiadjis and Kattan, 1990, 1993, 1999; Kattan and Voyiadjis, 1990, 1993a, 1993b, 1996; Voyiadjis and Venson, 1995; Voyiadjis and Thiagarajan, 1996; Voyiadjis and Park, 1997a, 1997b).
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Kattan, P.I., Voyiadjis, G.Z. (2002). Damage Mechanics. In: Damage Mechanics with Finite Elements. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56384-3_1
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