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A dynamic model for viscoelastic materials with prescribed growing cracks

Analysis of PDEs 2025-10-06 v3 Functional Analysis

Abstract

In this paper we prove the existence of solutions for a class of viscoelastic dynamic systems on time--dependent cracked domains, with possibly degenerate viscosity coefficients. Under stronger regularity assumptions we also show a uniqueness result. Finally, we exhibit an example where the energy--dissipation balance is not satisfied, showing there is an additional dissipation due to the crack growth.

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@article{arxiv.1904.13104,
  title  = {A dynamic model for viscoelastic materials with prescribed growing cracks},
  author = {Maicol Caponi and Francesco Sapio},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.13104},
  year   = {2025}
}
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