Irreversibility and alternate minimization in phase field fracture: a viscosity approach

DOI10.1007/S00033-020-01357-XzbMATH Open1447.35312arXiv1909.12092OpenAlexW2975357968MaRDI QIDQ2194005FDOQ2194005

Authors: Stefano Almi 

Publication date: 25 August 2020

Published in: ZAMP. Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: This work is devoted to the analysis of convergence of an alternate (staggered) minimization algorithm in the framework of phase field models of fracture. The energy of the system is characterized by a nonlinear splitting of tensile and compressive strains, featuring non-interpenetration of the fracture lips. The alternating scheme is coupled with an $L^2$-penalization in the phase field variable, driven by a viscous parameter~$delta>0$, and with an irreversibility constraint, forcing the monotonicity of the phase field only w.r.t.~time, but not along the whole iterative minimization. We show first the convergence of such a scheme to a viscous evolution for $delta>0$ and then consider the vanishing viscosity limit $deltao0$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.12092

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zbMATH Keywords

phase fieldvanishing viscosityfracture mechanicsalternate minimization

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Explicit solutions of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G05) Brittle damage (74R05) Brittle fracture (74R10)

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