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Representation of a microcapsule of mid-surface S placed in an infinite shear flow (left). Zoom on a representative volume element (RVE) containing microcavities and microcracks (middle). Decomposition of the cross-section δS of normal vector k into the effective load-bearing cross-section δS̃ and the total surface of the microdefects δSD (right).
