Abstract
AbstractWe 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.
Funder
Technische Universität München
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Subject
Applied Mathematics,General Engineering,Modeling and Simulation
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