“…The blunting of crack tip has been analysed by employing the rigid plastic slip line theory or the finite element method by Rice and Johnson [1], McMeeking [2], Miyoshi and Shiratori [3], and Saka et al [4], and it has been pointed out that large geometry change effects are important. Theoretical investigations on the growth of a single void in an infinite body of plastic material have been presented by McClintock [5], Rice and Tracey [6], and Budiansky et al [7].…”