Conservation laws and energy release rates for general strain-gradient elastic solids are derived in a finite deformation framework. With respect to the relevant literature new terms are derived modelling the energy release through the body edges. We show how the enlightened contributions and the presence of edge forces play a relevant role when estimating the J-integral of mode I and II crack opening problems.
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