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 language | English |
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Article number | 78 |
Journal | Journal of Nonlinear Science |
Volume | 31 |
Issue number | 5 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 2021 |
Keywords
- Brittle fracture
- Elliptic approximation
- Free-discontinuity problems
- Geometric rigidity
- Linearised elasticity
- Phase-field models
- Piecewise-rigid maps
- Γ -convergence