An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth
Analysis of PDEs
2007-05-23 v1 Functional Analysis
Abstract
We introduce a new model of irreversible quasistatic crack growth in which the evolution of cracks is the limit of a suitably modified -gradient flow of the energy functional, as the "viscosity" parameter tends to zero.
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@article{arxiv.math/0607596,
title = {An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth},
author = {Rodica Toader and Chiara Zanini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607596},
year = {2007}
}
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26 pages, 3 figures