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Cohesive fracture in 1D: quasi-static evolution and derivation from static phase-field models

Analysis of PDEs 2020-12-30 v2

Abstract

In this paper we propose a notion of irreversibility for the evolution of cracks in presence of cohesive forces, which allows for different responses in the loading and unloading processes, motivated by a variational approximation with damage models. We investigate its applicability to the construction of a quasi-static evolution in a simple one-dimensional model. The cohesive fracture model arises naturally via Gamma-convergence from a phase-field model of the generalized Ambrosio-Tortorelli type, which may be used as regularization for numerical simulations.

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@article{arxiv.2004.11290,
  title  = {Cohesive fracture in 1D: quasi-static evolution and derivation from static phase-field models},
  author = {Marco Bonacini and Sergio Conti and Flaviana Iurlano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2004.11290},
  year   = {2020}
}
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