Some remarks on the viscous approximation of crack growth

DOI10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.131zbMath1263.74044MaRDI QIDQ1942763

Giuliano Lazzaroni, Rodica Toader

Publication date: 14 March 2013

Published in: Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series S (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/dcdss.2013.6.131

zbMATH Keywords

brittle fracture; vanishing viscosity; stress intensity factor; energy release rate; local minimizers; crack propagation; variational models; free-discontinuity problems; Griffith's criterion; energy derivative

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74R10: Brittle fracture

74G70: Stress concentrations, singularities in solid mechanics

74G65: Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

35A35: Theoretical approximation in context of PDEs

35R35: Free boundary problems for PDEs

35Q74: PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids

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