Toader, RodicaZanini, Chiara2006-07-262011-09-072006-07-262011-09-072006-07-26https://openscience.sissa.it/handle/1963/1850We 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.297980 bytesapplication/pdfen-USPreprint