“…As these materials have prospective uses in applications like viscoelastic energy absorption, compliant thermal interfaces and biomimetic dry adhesives, these materials have attracted numerous researchers over the past several years. Over the years, a large amount of research works have been carried out for stationary as well as growing cracks for plastically compressible solids under monotonic and fatigue loading to understand the near-tip deformation and stress-strain fields; some studies are based on small deformation formulation [2,7,12,24,28,31,32], while others are found on finite deformation formulation [6,8,10,15,16,18,26,27].…”