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Globally stable quasistatic evolution for cohesive fracture with fatigue

Banff International Research Station for Mathematical Innovation and Discovery

In this talk we discuss the existence of quasistatic evolutions for a cohesive fracture on a prescribed crack surface, in small-strain antiplane elasticity. The main feature of the model is that the density of the energy dissipated in the fracture process depends on the total variation of the amplitude of the jump. Thus, any change in the crack opening entails a loss of energy, until the crack is complete. In particular this implies a fatigue phenomenon, i.e., a complete fracture may be produced by oscillation of small jumps. The first step of the existence proof is the construction of approximate evolutions obtained by solving discrete-time incremental minimum problems. The main difficulty in the passage to the continuous-time limit is that we lack controls on the variations of the jump of the approximate evolutions. Therefore we resort to a weak formulation where the variation of the jump is replaced by a Young measure. Eventually, after proving the existence in this weak formulation, we improve the result by showing that the Young measure is concentrated on a function and coincides with the variation of the jump of the displacement. Joint work with Vito Crismale and Gianluca Orlando.

Mathematics; Mechanics of deformable solids; Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization; Applied mathematics

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Author affiliation: University of Naples Federico II

2019-09-04

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/71595

Unreviewed

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/