Browsing by Author "Zeppieri, Caterina Ida"

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    A bridging mechanism in the homogenisation of brittle composites with soft inclusions
    (SISSA, 2015) Barchiesi, Marco; Lazzaroni, Giuliano; Zeppieri, Caterina Ida
    We provide a homogenisation result for the energy-functional associated with a purely brittle composite whose microstructure is characterised by soft periodic inclusions embedded in a stiffer matrix. We show that the two constituents as above can be suitably arranged on a microscopic scale ε to obtain, in the limit as ε tends to zero, a homogeneous macroscopic energy-functional explicitly depending on the opening of the crack.
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    Gamma-Convergence of Free-discontinuity problems
    (SISSA, 2017-03-20) Cagnetti, Filippo; Dal Maso, Gianni; Scardia, Lucia; Zeppieri, Caterina Ida; Mathematics
    We study the Gamma-convergence of sequences of free-discontinuity functionals depending on vector-valued functions u which can be discontinuous across hypersurfaces whose shape and location are not known a priori. The main novelty of our result is that we work under very general assumptions on the integrands which, in particular, are not required to be periodic in the space variable. Further, we consider the case of surface integrands which are not bounded from below by the amplitude of the jump of u. We obtain three main results: compactness with respect to Gamma-convergence, representation of the Gamma-limit in an integral form and identification of its integrands, and homogenisation formulas without periodicity assumptions. In particular, the classical case of periodic homogenisation follows as a by-product of our analysis. Moreover, our result covers also the case of stochastic homogenisation, as we will show in a forthcoming paper.
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    A global method for deterministic and stochastic homogenisation in BV
    (SISSA, 2021-01-19) Cagnetti, Filippo; Dal Maso, Gianni; Scardia, Lucia; Zeppieri, Caterina Ida; mathematics
    In this paper we study the deterministic and stochastic homogenisation of free discontinuity functionals under linear growth and coercivity conditions. The main novelty of our deterministic result is that we work under very general assumptions on the integrands which, in particular, are not required to be periodic in the space variable. Combining this result with the pointwise Subadditive Ergodic Theorem by Akcoglu and Krengel, we prove a stochastic homogenisation result, in the case of stationary random integrands. In particular, we characterise the limit integrands in terms of asymptotic cell formulas, as in the classical case of periodic homogenisation.
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    Stochastic homogenisation of free-discontinuity problems
    (2018-03) Cagnetti, Filippo; Dal Maso, Gianni; Scardia, Lucia; Zeppieri, Caterina Ida; Mathematics
    In this paper we study the stochastic homogenisation of free-discontinuity functionals. Assuming stationarity for the random volume and surface integrands, we prove the existence of a homogenised random free-discontinuity functional, which is deterministic in the ergodic case. Moreover, by establishing a connection between the deterministic convergence of the functionals at any fixed realisation and the pointwise Subadditive Ergodic Theorem by Akcoglou and Krengel, we characterise the limit volume and surface integrands in terms of asymptotic cell formulas.