%0 Journal Article %J Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences %D 2018 %T Cohesive fracture with irreversibility: Quasistatic evolution for a model subject to fatigue %A Vito Crismale %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Gianluca Orlando %X

In this paper we prove the existence of quasistatic evolutions for a cohesive fracture on a prescribed crack surface, in small-strain antiplane elasticity. The main feature of the model is that the density of the energy dissipated in the fracture process depends on the total variation of the amplitude of the jump. Thus, any change in the crack opening entails a loss of energy, until the crack is complete. In particular this implies a fatigue phenomenon, i.e. a complete fracture may be produced by oscillation of small jumps. The first step of the existence proof is the construction of approximate evolutions obtained by solving discrete-time incremental minimum problems. The main difficulty in the passage to the continuous-time limit is that we lack of controls on the variations of the jump of the approximate evolutions. Therefore we resort to a weak formulation where the variation of the jump is replaced by a Young measure. Eventually, after proving the existence in this weak formulation, we improve the result by showing that the Young measure is concentrated on a function and coincides with the variation of the jump of the displacement.

%B Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences %V 28 %P 1371-1412 %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218202518500379 %R 10.1142/S0218202518500379 %0 Journal Article %J Advances in Calculus of Variations %D 2017 %T Lower semicontinuity of a class of integral functionals on the space of functions of bounded deformation %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Gianluca Orlando %A Rodica Toader %X

We study the lower semicontinuity of some free discontinuity functionals with linear growth defined on the space of functions with bounded deformation. The volume term is convex and depends only on the Euclidean norm of the symmetrized gradient. We introduce a suitable class of surface terms, which make the functional lower semicontinuous with respect to $L^1$ convergence.

%B Advances in Calculus of Variations %I De Gruyter %V 10 %P 183–207 %G eng %R 10.1515/acv-2015-0036 %0 Journal Article %J Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations %D 2016 %T Fracture models for elasto-plastic materials as limits of gradient damage models coupled with plasticity: the antiplane case %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Gianluca Orlando %A Rodica Toader %X

We study the asymptotic behavior of a variational model for damaged elasto-plastic materials in the case of antiplane shear. The energy functionals we consider depend on a small parameter $\varepsilon$, which forces damage concentration on regions of codimension one. We determine the $\Gamma$-limit as $\varepsilon$ tends to zero and show that it contains an energy term involving the crack opening.

%B Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations %V 55 %P 45 %8 Apr %G eng %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s00526-016-0981-z %R 10.1007/s00526-016-0981-z %0 Journal Article %D 2014 %T Laplace equation in a domain with a rectilinear crack: higher order derivatives of the energy with respect to the crack length %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Gianluca Orlando %A Rodica Toader %K cracked domains, energy release rate, higher order derivatives, asymptotic expansion of solutions %X

We consider the weak solution of the Laplace equation in a planar domain with a straight crack, prescribing a homogeneous Neumann condition on the crack and a nonhomogeneous Dirichlet condition on the rest of the boundary. For every k we express the k-th derivative of the energy with respect to the crack length in terms of a finite number of coefficients of the asymptotic expansion of the solution near the crack tip and of a finite number of other parameters, which only depend on the shape of the domain.

%I SISSA %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/7271 %1 7316 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA %$ Submitted by Gianni Dal Maso (dalmaso@sissa.it) on 2014-03-11T15:17:50Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DM-Orl-Toa-sissa.pdf: 251851 bytes, checksum: 59273a217a11dcfc5a9ed89d2c34c6cd (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00030-014-0291-0