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We investigate a physical characterization of the gradient flow structure of variational fracture models for brittle materials: a Griffith-type fracture model and an irreversible fracture phase field model. We derive the Griffith-type…
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We study a recently introduced and exactly solvable mean-field model for the density of vibrational states $\mathcal{D}(\omega)$ of a structurally disordered system. The model is formulated as a collection of disordered anharmonic…
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