“…While damage evolution laws were proposed in the original works deriving the GTN or CDM approaches, several other damage rate expressions can be found in the literature describing different damage mechanisms (Duddu and Waisman, 2013;Souza and Allen, 2012;Tekoglu and Pardoen, 2010;Hammi and Horstemeyer, 2007;Qi and Bertram, 1999;Kitzig and Häußler-Combe, 2011;Lecarme et al, 2011;Khan and Liu, 2012;Lai et al, 2009;Zaïri et al, 2011) and coupling with time-, rate-, and temperature-dependent materials (Abu Al Rub and Darabi, 2012;Besson, 2009;Stewart et al, 2011;Horstemeyer et al, 2000;Guo et al, 2013), to cite only a few.…”