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Energy release rate for non smooth cracks in planar elasticity

Analysis of PDEs 2014-06-27 v1

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the characterization of the energy release rate of a crack which is merely closed, connected, and with density 1/21/2 at the tip. First, the blow-up limit of the displacement is analyzed, and the convergence to the corresponding positively 1/21/2-homogenous function in the cracked plane is established. Then, the energy release rate is obtained as the derivative of the elastic energy with respect to an infinitesimal additional crack increment.

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@article{arxiv.1406.6981,
  title  = {Energy release rate for non smooth cracks in planar elasticity},
  author = {Jean-François Babadjian and Antonin Chambolle and Antoine Lemenant},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.6981},
  year   = {2014}
}