“…Geometries presently investigated include long, thin, straight and curved rods [1], spheres [2][3][4][5][6][7][8], thick spherical shells [9], bars with transverse discontinuities [10] and hemispherically-ended rods loaded at their plane end [11] (the latter paper also includes an account of the quasi-static behaviour of such rods). This earlier work concentrated on the damage observed at the distal (i.e.…”