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Quasi-static crack growth for a cohesive zone model with prescribed crack path

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2007

Gianni Dal Maso  and
Chiara Zanini
Gianni Dal Maso
Affiliation:
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy (dalmaso@sissa.it; zaninic@sissa.it)
Chiara Zanini
Affiliation:
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA), Via Beirut 4, 34014 Trieste, Italy (dalmaso@sissa.it; zaninic@sissa.it)
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Abstract

In this paper we study the quasi-static crack growth for a cohesive zone model. We assume that the crack path is prescribed and we study the time evolution of the crack in the framework of the variational theory of rate-independent processes.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 137 , Issue 2 , 2007 , pp. 253 - 279
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2007

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