An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth
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2006-07-26T10:13:39Z
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We introduce a new model of irreversible quasistatic crack growth in which the evolution of cracks is the limit of a suitably modified $\epsilon$-gradient flow of the energy functional, as the "viscosity" parameter $\epsilon$ tends to zero.