Phase-Field Approximation of Functionals Defined on Piecewise-Rigid Maps

Marco Cicalese, Matteo Focardi, Caterina Ida Zeppieri

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Abstract

We provide a variational approximation of Ambrosio–Tortorelli type for brittle fracture energies of piecewise-rigid solids. Our result covers both the case of geometrically nonlinear elasticity and that of linearised elasticity.

Original languageEnglish
Article number78
JournalJournal of Nonlinear Science
Volume31
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2021

Keywords

  • Brittle fracture
  • Elliptic approximation
  • Free-discontinuity problems
  • Geometric rigidity
  • Linearised elasticity
  • Phase-field models
  • Piecewise-rigid maps
  • Γ -convergence

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