Revisiting brittle fracture as an energy minimization problem

DOI10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00034-9zbMath0966.74060WikidataQ127438333 ScholiaQ127438333MaRDI QIDQ1973986

Jean-Jacques Marigo, Gilles A. Francfort

Publication date: 8 May 2000

Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

energy minimizationbrittle fracturefracture toughnessenergy release ratevariational modelquasistatic crack evolution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Brittle fracture (74R10) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65)

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