Perturbed area functionals and brittle damage mechanics

arXivmath/0511240MaRDI QIDQ6476282FDOQ6476282

Publication date: 9 November 2005

Abstract: Some Mumford-Shah functionals are revisited as perturbed area functionals in connection with brittle damage mechanics. We find minimizers "on paper" for the classical Mumford-Shah functional for some particular two dimensional domains and boundary conditions. These solutions raise the possibility of validating experimentally the energetic model of crack appearance. Two models of brittle damage and fracture are proposed after; in the one of these models the crack belongs to the set of integral varifolds. We have felt the necessity to start the paper with a preliminary section concerning classical results in equilibrium of a cracked elastic body reviewed in the context of Sobolev spaces with respect to a measure. Further information at http://irmi.epfl.ch/cag/buliga_bfrac.html .

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