“…Second, the low stress triaxiality in a well designed shear specimen suppresses damage initiation and propagation (Bai and Wierzbicki, 2008;Bao and Wierzbicki, 2004) to enable characterization of a material at large plastic strain (Dorogoy et al, 2015;Dorogoy and Rittel, 2017;Rittel et al, 2002). Third, the thickness of the specimen shear zone can be designed to be so small that very high strain rates in the range of 10 4 s À1 to 10 5 s À1 are possible (Klepaczko, 1994;Klepaczko et al, 1999;Xu et al, 2018;Zhou et al, 2017). In addition, stress state, represented by stress triaxiality g and Lode angle parameter h, has been shown to influence the deformation and failure behavior of materials significantly (Bai and Wierzbicki, 2008;Dunand and Mohr, 2017;Fras et al, 2018).…”