Although macroscopic implementation of the criteria gave acceptable results, the local approach was probably closest to the real nature of void coalescence, because it takes into account local coalescence events observed experimentally before final fracture.
While many studies have reported the validity of the Consensus criteria, implementation of the criteria in daily work has raised many practical questions.
The criteria are presented in a single table without accompanying descriptive prose, making implementation of the criteria potentially subject to individual interpretation.
Under others loading cases, the numerical implementation of the criterion is very simple and can be easily integrated in a damage model or in a finite element code.
The implementation of the criterion in finite element programs, however, presents some numerical difficulties due to the gradient discontinuities which occur at both the edges and the tip of the hexagonal yield surface pyramid.
In the implementation, the mRMR criterion is hard to satisfy, especially when the feature space is large.
In the field of implementation, the important criterion is the degree of external validity of the results applicability to the local context and acceptability of the intervention/s to the patient.
For most of the countries, the implementation criteria are based solely on the land use maps developed to support the national GHG inventory.
While the new drugs or implementations developed according to the criteria described above may be curative for many cancers when given at TMD, certainly in a number of cases some cancer cells will survive the initial tough treatment and eventually develop to recurrent or metastatic tumors, likely after a latency that is longer than usual.
It is the function of the program, expressed in its semantics, that fixes the physical implementation and provides the criteria of correctness and malfunction.
The sections below provide further detail on the criteria and implementation methods for each country.
