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An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth

Rodica Toader, Chiara Zanini

math.AParXiv:math/0607596

Abstract

We introduce a new model of irreversible quasistatic crack growth in which the evolution of cracks is the limit of a suitably modified ε-gradient flow of the energy functional, as the "viscosity" parameter ε tends to zero.

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