Physical significance of the curvature varifold-based description of crack nucleation

DOI10.4171/RLM/568zbMATH Open1231.74382arXiv1001.3643WikidataQ125946919 ScholiaQ125946919MaRDI QIDQ973436FDOQ973436

Authors: Paolo Maria Mariano 

Publication date: 31 May 2010

Published in: Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Serie IX. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The nucleation and/or growth of cracks in elastic-brittle solids has been recently described in [14] in terms of a special class of measures and with a variational technique requiring the minimization of a certain energy over classes of bodies. Here, the physical foundations of the theory and the basic ideas leading to it are described and commented further on. A view on certain possible developments and shifts toward different settings is also given. This article has expository character.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.3643

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zbMATH Keywords

currentsfracture mechanicsclasses of bodiescurvature varifoldselastic-brittle materialsextended weak diffeomorphisms

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Brittle fracture (74R10) Geometric measure and integration theory, integral and normal currents in optimization (49Q15)

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