Fracture models for elasto-plastic materials as limits of gradient damage models coupled with plasticity: the antiplane case (Q2628969)

Let \(\Omega\) be a bounded open set of \({\mathbb R}^{n}\), \(\delta_{\varepsilon} \in ]0,1[\) for all \(\varepsilon >0\) such that \({\delta_{\varepsilon} \over \varepsilon} \rightarrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\), \(k:[0,1] \rightarrow [0,+\infty[\) a continuous nondecreasing function, \(k(\beta)>0\) for \(\beta>0\), \(W:[0,1] \rightarrow [0,+\infty[\) a continuous decreasing function, \(W(1)=0\), \({\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}: BV(\Omega) \times H^{1}(\Omega)\rightarrow [0,+\infty]\), \({\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}(u,\alpha)=\min\{{1 \over 2} \int_{\Omega} \alpha \, | e|^{2} \,\text{d}x+\int_{\Omega}k\circ\tilde{\alpha} \,\text{d}| p|+{1 \over \varepsilon} \int_{\Omega} W \circ \alpha \,\text{d}x + \varepsilon \int_{\Omega} |\nabla\alpha|^{2} \,\text{d}x: \; Du=e \; |\;|_{\big{|}\Omega} + p\), \(e\in L^{2}(\Omega, {\mathbb R}^{n})\) and \(p\in M_{b}(\Omega,{\mathbb R}^{n})\}\) if \(\delta_{\varepsilon} \leq \alpha \leq 1\) a.e., \({\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}(u,\alpha)=+\infty\) otherwise, where \(M_{b}(\Omega, {\mathbb R}^{n})\) is the space of bounded measures and \(\tilde{\alpha}\) denote the quasicontinuous representative of \(\alpha\). Theorem 1. \({\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}(u,\alpha)=\int_{\Omega} f_{\varepsilon}(\alpha,|\nabla u|) \,\text{d}x +\int_{\Omega} k\circ \tilde{\alpha} \,\text{d}| D^{s}u| + {1 \over \varepsilon} \int_{\Omega} W\circ\alpha \,\text{d}x + \varepsilon\int_{\Omega} |\nabla\alpha|^{2} \,\text{d}x\), where \(\nabla u\) is the density of the absolutely continuous part and \(D^{s}u\) is the singular part of \(Du\), \(f_{\varepsilon}(\beta,t)=f(\beta,t)\) if \(\delta_{\varepsilon} \leq \beta \leq 1\) and \(f_{\varepsilon}(\beta,t)=+\infty\) otherwise, \(f(\beta,t)=\min\{{1 \over 2}\beta s^{2}+k(\beta)(t-s): \; 0 \leq s \leq t\}\). Theorem 2. \({\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon} \; \Gamma\)-converges to \({\mathcal F}_{0}\) in \(L^{1}(\Omega) \times L^{1}(\Omega)\) as \(\varepsilon \rightarrow 0\), where \({\mathcal F}_{0}: L^{1}(\Omega)\times L^{1}(\Omega) \rightarrow [0,+\infty]\), \({\mathcal F}_{0}(u,\alpha)={\mathcal F}(u)\) if \(u \in GBV(\Omega)\) and \(\alpha=1\) a.e., \({\mathcal F}_{0}(u,\alpha)=+\infty\) otherwise, \({\mathcal F}(u)=\int_{\Omega} f(1,|\nabla u|) \,\text{d}x+k(1)| D^{c}u|(\Omega)+\int_{J_{u}} \Psi(|[u]|) \,\text{d}{\mathcal H}^{n-1}\), \(J_{u}\) is the jump set of \(u\), \([u]\) is the difference between the traces of \(u\) on both sides of \(J_{u}\), and \(| D^{c}u|\) is the Cantor part of \(| Du|\), \(\Psi(t)=\min \{\min\{k(\beta)t+\gamma_{W}(\beta): \, 0 \leq \beta \leq1\},\gamma_{W}(0)\}\) for \(t \geq 0\) and \(\gamma_{W}(\beta)=4\intop_{\beta}^{1}\sqrt{W} \,\text{d}s\) for \(\beta \in [0,1]\). Theorem 3. If \(\Omega\) has a Lipschitz boundary, \(\partial_{D}\Omega\) is a relatively open of \(\partial\Omega\), \(w\in L^{\infty}(\partial_{D}\Omega)\), \(\eta_{\varepsilon} \searrow 0\) as \(\varepsilon \searrow 0, \;(u_{\varepsilon},\alpha_{\varepsilon}) \in BV(\Omega)\times H^{1}(\Omega)\) are such that \(u_{\varepsilon}=w\) and \(\alpha_{\varepsilon}=1 \; {\mathcal H}^{n-1}\)-a.e. on \(\partial_{D}\Omega, \; | u_{\varepsilon}|_{L^{\infty}(\Omega)} \leq | w|_{L^{\infty}(\partial_{D}\Omega)}, \; {\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}(u_{\varepsilon},\alpha_{\varepsilon})<\inf\{{\mathcal F}_{\varepsilon}(u,\alpha): \; u\in BV(\Omega), \; \alpha \in H^{1}(\Omega),\; u=w\) and \(\alpha=1 \; {\mathcal H}^{n-1}\)-a.e on \(\partial_{D}\Omega\}+\eta_{\varepsilon}\), then \(\alpha_{\varepsilon} \rightarrow 1\) in \(L^{1}(\Omega)\) and a subsequence of \(u_{\varepsilon}\) converges in \(L^{1}(\Omega)\) to a minimizer \(u \in BV(\Omega)\) of the problem \(\min\{{\mathcal F}(u)+\int_{\partial_{D}\Omega} \Psi(| u-v|) \,\text{d}{\mathcal H}^{n-1}: \; u \in BV(\Omega)\}\).