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Phase-field approximation of functionals defined on piecewise-rigid maps

Analysis of PDEs 2021-08-18 v1

Abstract

We provide a variational approximation of Ambrosio-Tortorelli type for brittle fracture energies of piecewise-rigid solids. Our result covers both the case of geometrically nonlinear elasticity and that of linearised elasticity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2104.00658,
  title  = {Phase-field approximation of functionals defined on piecewise-rigid maps},
  author = {Marco Cicalese and Matteo Focardi and Caterina Ida Zeppieri},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.00658},
  year   = {2021}
}
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