Doctoral thesis: On the Role of Process Regions at Stationary and Growing Cracks.
Studies of crack behaviour and fracture are generally performed using continuum analysis. Thus, the process region is either not considered at all or assumed to be point-sized. In the latter case it is often ascribed a desired property, usually the ability to consume energy.A major step towards the understanding of the fracture process region the concept of autonomy of the near tip field was intro
