Quasi-static damage evolution and homogenization: a case study of non-commutability (Q5965429)

The authors consider a family of quasi-static evolution problems involving oscillating energies and dissipations. Seen separately, energies and dissipations do \(\Gamma\)-converge, but the sum of the oscillating energies and dissipations does not agree with the sum of the corresponding \(\Gamma\)-limits. The presented results contribute to the analysis of the interaction between concepts like \(\Gamma\)-convergence and variational evolution (e.g. in the framework of energetic solutions and in the theory of gradient flows).