%0 Report %D 2018 %T On the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on time-dependent domains %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X We introduce a notion of solution to the wave equation on a suitable class of time-dependent domains and compare it with a previous de nition. We prove an existence result for the solution of the Cauchy problem and present some additional conditions which imply uniqueness. %I SISSA %G en %U http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35314 %1 35622 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2018-04-23T06:03:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DM-Toa-18-sissa.pdf: 404543 bytes, checksum: 73bb5b0c57b574d05b3d6f33417016e0 (MD5) %0 Report %D 2018 %T Existence for elastodynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Cristopher J. Larsen %A Rodica Toader %X We consider a model of elastodynamics with fracture evolution, based on energy-dissipation balance and a maximal dissipation condition. We prove an existence result in the case of planar elasticity with a free crack path, where the maximal dissipation condition is satisfied among suitably regular competitor cracks. %G en %U http://preprints.sissa.it/handle/1963/35308 %1 35616 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2018-03-19T09:02:45Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DM-Lar-Toa-sissa.pdf: 429343 bytes, checksum: 82817f96da6dcabff29c2c322590fb66 (MD5) %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 Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées %D 2017 %T A lower semicontinuity result for a free discontinuity functional with a boundary term %A Stefano Almi %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X

We study the lower semicontinuity in $GSBV^{p}(\Omega;\mathbb{R}^{m})$ of a free discontinuity functional $\mathcal{F}(u)$ that can be written as the sum of a crack term, depending only on the jump set $S_{u}$, and of a boundary term, depending on the trace of $u$ on $\partial\Omega$. We give sufficient conditions on the integrands for the lower semicontinuity of $\mathcal{F}$. Moreover, we prove a relaxation result, which shows that, if these conditions are not satisfied, the lower semicontinuous envelope of $\mathcal{F}$ can be represented by the sum of two integrals on $S_{u}$ and $\partial\Omega$, respectively.

%B Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées %V 108 %P 952-990 %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/15979 %N 6 %1 34731 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 %$ Submitted by salmi@sissa.it (salmi@sissa.it) on 2015-12-15T14:37:19Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Alm-DM-Toa-15-sissa.pdf: 351559 bytes, checksum: b6adddc4944478676c7d4b34028a347c (MD5) %& 952 %R 10.1016/j.matpur.2017.05.018 %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 Report %D 2015 %T Existence for constrained dynamic Griffith fracture with a weak maximal dissipation condition %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Cristopher J. Larsen %A Rodica Toader %X There are very few existence results for fracture evolution, outside of globally minimizing quasi-static evolutions. Dynamic evolutions are particularly problematic, due to the difficulty of showing energy balance, as well as of showing that solutions obey a maximal dissipation condition, or some similar condition that prevents stationary cracks from always being solutions. Here we introduce a new weak maximal dissipation condition and show that it is compatible with cracks constrained to grow smoothly on a smooth curve. In particular, we show existence of dynamic fracture evolutions satisfying this maximal dissipation condition, subject to the above smoothness constraints, and exhibit explicit examples to show that this maximal dissipation principle can indeed rule out stationary cracks as solutions. %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/35045 %1 35277 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 %$ Submitted by Gianni Dal Maso (dalmaso@sissa.it) on 2015-11-18T15:46:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DM-Lar-Toa-SISSA.pdf: 313034 bytes, checksum: 76419fd2c8c435ae7deeca773b424667 (MD5) %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 %0 Journal Article %J Nonlinear Analysis %D 2014 %T Quasi-static crack growth in hydraulic fracture %A Stefano Almi %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X

We present a variational model for the quasi-static crack growth in hydraulic fracture in the framework of the energy formulation of rate-independent processes. The cracks are assumed to lie on a prescribed plane and to satisfy a very weak regularity assumption.

%B Nonlinear Analysis %I Elsevier %V 109 %P 301-318 %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11767/17350 %N Nov %9 Journal article %1 34741 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 %$ Submitted by salmi@sissa.it (salmi@sissa.it) on 2015-09-24T08:10:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 A-DM-T-070714.pdf: 283645 bytes, checksum: 68056ef27e9dcfa246029148c0016c0f (MD5) %& 301 %R 10.1016/j.na.2014.07.009 %0 Report %D 2014 %T Rate-independent damage in thermo-viscoelastic materials with inertia %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Riccarda Rossi %A Marita Thomas %A Rodica Toader %X We present a model for rate-independent, unidirectional, partial damage in visco-elastic materials with inertia and thermal effects. The damage process is modeled by means of an internal variable, governed by a rate-independent flow rule. The heat equation and the momentum balance for the displacements are coupled in a highly nonlinear way. Our assumptions on the corresponding energy functional also comprise the case of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli phase-field model (without passage to the brittle limit). We discuss a suitable weak formulation and prove an existence theorem obtained with the aid of a (partially) decoupled time-discrete scheme and variational convergence methods. We also carry out the asymptotic analysis for vanishing viscosity and inertia and obtain a fully rate-independent limit model for displacements and damage, which is Independent of temperature. %I SISSA %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7444 %1 7542 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2014-10-15T09:00:07Z No. of bitstreams: 1 LRTT-SISSA-preprint-14_10_15.pdf: 498065 bytes, checksum: 0de0c4a77dafb5df12747fd9947cec5c (MD5) %0 Report %D 2014 %T Some remarks on a model for rate-independent damage in thermo-visco-elastodynamics %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Riccarda Rossi %A Marita Thomas %A Rodica Toader %X This note deals with the analysis of a model for partial damage, where the rateindependent, unidirectional flow rule for the damage variable is coupled with the rate-dependent heat equation, and with the momentum balance featuring inertia and viscosity according to Kelvin-Voigt rheology. The results presented here combine the approach from Roubicek [1] with the methods from Lazzaroni/Rossi/Thomas/Toader [2] and extend the analysis to the setting of inhomogeneous time-dependent Dirichlet data. %I SISSA %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7463 %1 7566 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2014-10-23T09:01:52Z No. of bitstreams: 1 MURPHYS_LRTT14_SISSA-preprint(1).pdf: 246259 bytes, checksum: a67369f4eab98d39fb2165d882d97592 (MD5) %0 Journal Article %D 2014 %T A variational model for the quasi-static growth of fractional dimensional brittle fractures %A Simone Racca %A Rodica Toader %K Variational models %X

We propose a variational model for the irreversible quasi-static evolution of brittle fractures having fractional Hausdorff dimension in the setting of two-dimensional antiplane and plane elasticity. The evolution along such irregular crack paths can be obtained as $\Gamma$-limit of evolutions along one-dimensional cracks when the fracture toughness tends to zero.

%I European Mathematical Society %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/6983 %1 6973 %2 Mathematics %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Simone Racca (sracca@sissa.it) on 2013-07-18T08:39:00Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Racca_Toader.pdf: 416939 bytes, checksum: cf459548a10944037e56b7504fe60f51 (MD5) %R 10.4171/IFB/328 %0 Journal Article %J Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S %D 2013 %T Some remarks on the viscous approximation of crack growth %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Rodica Toader %K Variational models %X

We describe an existence result for quasistatic evolutions of cracks in antiplane elasticity obtained in [16] by a vanishing viscosity approach, with free (but regular enough) crack path. We underline in particular the motivations for the choice of the class of admissible cracks and of the dissipation potential. Moreover, we extend the result to a model with applied forces depending on time.

%B Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. S %I SISSA %V 6 %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4206 %1 3945 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2011-09-23T10:54:36Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Lazzaroni_Toader_24_M.pdf: 225564 bytes, checksum: 4c5000d79e83902639a8efb34ba9c0c8 (MD5) %& 131-146 %0 Journal Article %J Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 95 (2011) 565-584 %D 2011 %T Energy release rate and stress intensity factor in antiplane elasticity %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Rodica Toader %X In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of the stress intensity factor and its relation with the energy release rate when the crack path is a C1,1 curve. Finally, we show that the energy release rate is continuous with respect to the Hausdorff convergence in a class of admissible cracks. %B Journal de Mathematiques Pures et Appliquees 95 (2011) 565-584 %I Elsevier %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3780 %1 546 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2009-11-17T11:50:32Z\\r\\nNo. of bitstreams: 2\\r\\nLazzaroni_67M_2009.pdf: 259616 bytes, checksum: 3c3adef52607bc6238c11a84904a9fb9 (MD5)\\r\\nLazzaroni_67M_2009: 259616 bytes, checksum: 3c3adef52607bc6238c11a84904a9fb9 (MD5) %R 10.1016/j.matpur.2011.01.001 %0 Journal Article %J {MATHEMATICAL MODELS & METHODS IN APPLIED SCIENCES} %D 2011 %T A MODEL FOR CRACK PROPAGATION BASED ON VISCOUS APPROXIMATION %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Rodica Toader %K Brittle fracture %K Crack propagation %K energy derivative %K energy release rate %K free-discontinuity problems %K Griffith's criterion %K local minimizers %K stress intensity factor} %K vanishing viscosity %K {Variational models %X

{In the setting of antiplane linearized elasticity, we show the existence of quasistatic evolutions of cracks in brittle materials by using a vanishing viscosity approach, thus taking into account local minimization. The main feature of our model is that the path followed by the crack need not be prescribed a priori: indeed, it is found as the limit (in the sense of Hausdorff convergence) of curves obtained by an incremental procedure. The result is based on a continuity property for the energy release rate in a suitable class of admissible cracks.}

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In this case, the convergence of the discrete time approximations is improved. %B ESAIM: COCV 17 (2011) 1-27 %I Cambridge University Press / EDP Sciences %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2355 %1 1662 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2007-11-07T13:38:16Z\\r\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\r\\nQuasCrack.pdf: 298737 bytes, checksum: 127034af65efce0ab97317eccb47e76c (MD5) %R 10.1051/cocv/2009037 %0 Journal Article %J Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 196 (2010) 867-906 %D 2010 %T Quasistatic crack growth in elasto-plastic materials: the two-dimensional case %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X We study a variational model for the quasistatic evolution of elasto-plastic materials with cracks in the case of planar small strain associative elasto-plasticity. %B Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 196 (2010) 867-906 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2964 %1 1736 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-09-23T17:17:34Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nDM-Toa-07-preprint.pdf: 320979 bytes, checksum: e4f2a1856f9bd91d63fc45557cbd6a16 (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00205-009-0258-1 %0 Journal Article %J Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. (9) 1 (2008) 497-505 %D 2008 %T Decomposition results for functions with bounded variation %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %B Boll. Unione Mat. Ital. (9) 1 (2008) 497-505 %I Unione Matematica Italiana %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3535 %1 729 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2009-02-23T10:23:36Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nDM-Toa.pdf: 186814 bytes, checksum: bbc754f60013f0d8fd61b90a278ac837 (MD5) %0 Journal Article %J NoDEA 13 (2007) 713-734 %D 2007 %T On a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X In this paper we introduce a notion of unilateral slope for the Mumford-Shah functional, and provide an explicit formula in the case of smooth cracks. We show that the slope is not lower semicontinuous and study the corresponding relaxed functional. %B NoDEA 13 (2007) 713-734 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2059 %1 2137 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2007-09-06T14:02:51Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0410525v1.pdf: 214576 bytes, checksum: 3722f413401cdb51f778a8c15eeebe71 (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00030-006-4054-4 %0 Report %D 2006 %T An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth %A Rodica Toader %A Chiara Zanini %X 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. %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1850 %1 2367 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2006-07-26T10:13:38Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nmath.AP-0607596.pdf: 297980 bytes, checksum: 7a13d5d5fe36a4577923b3ccd0b0acaf (MD5) %0 Journal Article %J Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 176 (2005) 165-225 %D 2005 %T Quasistatic Crack Growth in Nonlinear Elasticity %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Gilles A. Francfort %A Rodica Toader %X In this paper, we prove a new existence result for a variational model of crack growth in brittle materials proposed in [15]. We consider the case of $n$-dimensional finite elasticity, for an arbitrary $n\\\\ge1$, with a quasiconvex bulk energy and with prescribed boundary deformations and applied loads, both depending on time. %B Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 176 (2005) 165-225 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2293 %1 1723 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2007-10-24T09:12:09Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0401196v1.pdf: 664295 bytes, checksum: cb1000c44e6ae356984e24b55ee97117 (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00205-004-0351-4 %0 Journal Article %J Quad. Mat. Dip. Mat. Seconda Univ. Napoli 14 (2004) 245-266 %D 2004 %T Quasi-static evolution in brittle fracture: the case of bounded solutions %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Gilles A. Francfort %A Rodica Toader %X The main steps of the proof of the existence result for the quasi-static evolution of cracks in brittle materials, obtained in [7] in the vector case and for a general quasiconvex elastic energy, are presented here under the simplifying assumption that the minimizing sequences involved in the problem are uniformly bounded in $L^\\\\infty$. %B Quad. Mat. Dip. Mat. Seconda Univ. Napoli 14 (2004) 245-266 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2229 %1 2015 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2007-10-15T15:04:28Z\\r\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\r\\n0401198v1.pdf: 166634 bytes, checksum: c21fba2b1fbbaec4fe14c56595b0664e (MD5) %0 Journal Article %J Rend. Mat. Appl. 23 (2003) 189-201 %D 2003 %T A note on the integral representation of functionals in the space SBD(O) %A Francois Ebobisse %A Rodica Toader %X In this paper we study the integral representation in the space SBD(O) of special functions with bounded deformation of some L^1-norm lower semicontinuous functionals invariant with respect to rigid motions. %B Rend. Mat. Appl. 23 (2003) 189-201 %I Rendiconti di Matematica %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3064 %1 1269 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-10-10T08:08:06Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0104264v1.pdf: 157593 bytes, checksum: 8afd09d4c0f34e5fa55e357804395f3d (MD5) %0 Journal Article %J Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002), no. 12, 1773 %D 2002 %T A model for the quasi-static growth of a brittle fracture: existence and approximation results %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X We study a variant of the variational model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures proposed by Francfort and Marigo.9 The main feature of our model is that, in the discrete-time formulation, in each step we do not consider absolute minimizers of the energy, but, in a sense, we look for local minimizers which are sufficiently close to the approximate solution obtained in the previous step. This is done by introducing in the variational problem an additional term which penalizes the L2-distance between the approximate solutions at two consecutive times. We study the continuous-time version of this model, obtained by passing to the limit as the time step tends to zero, and show that it satisfies (for almost every time) some minimality conditions which are slightly different from those considered in Refs. 9 and 8, but are still enough to prove (under suitable regularity assumptions on the crack path) that the classical Griffith\\\'s criterion holds at the crack tips. We also prove that, if no initial crack is present and if the data of the problem are sufficiently smooth, no crack will develop in this model, provided the penalization term is large enough. %B Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002), no. 12, 1773 %I SISSA Library %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1571 %1 2547 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Made available in DSpace on 2004-09-01T13:04:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1\\nmath.AP0101089.pdf: 313965 bytes, checksum: 0373da7254cb4d172659dd2402174562 (MD5)\\n Previous issue date: 2000 %R 10.1142/S0218202502002331 %0 Journal Article %J Math.Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002) , p.1773-1800. %D 2002 %T A model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures based on local minimization %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %X We study a variant of the variational model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures proposed by Francfort and Marigo.9 The main feature of our model is that, in the discrete-time formulation, in each step we do not consider absolute minimizers of the energy, but, in a sense, we look for local minimizers which are sufficiently close to the approximate solution obtained in the previous step. This is done by introducing in the variational problem an additional term which penalizes the L2-distance between the approximate solutions at two consecutive times. We study the continuous-time version of this model, obtained by passing to the limit as the time step tends to zero, and show that it satisfies (for almost every time) some minimality conditions which are slightly different from those considered in Refs. 9 and 8, but are still enough to prove (under suitable regularity assumptions on the crack path) that the classical Griffith\\\'s criterion holds at the crack tips. We also prove that, if no initial crack is present and if the data of the problem are sufficiently smooth, no crack will develop in this model, provided the penalization term is large enough. %B Math.Models Methods Appl. Sci., 12 (2002) , p.1773-1800. %I SISSA Library %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1621 %1 2497 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Made available in DSpace on 2004-09-01T13:05:26Z (GMT). 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This existence result is proved by a time discretization process, where at each step a global energy minimization is performed, with the constraint that the new crack contains all cracks formed at the previous time steps. This procedure provides an effective way to approximate the continuous time evolution. %B Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal. 162 (2002) 101-135 %I Springer %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3056 %1 1277 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2008-10-09T16:01:33Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\n0103221v1.pdf: 340988 bytes, checksum: 433e8545f072a326fc7a6d80a9e7a401 (MD5) %R 10.1007/s002050100187 %0 Thesis %D 1997 %T Some Problems in the Asymptotic Analysis of Partial Differential Equations in Perforated Domains %A Rodica Toader %K Dirichlet problems %I SISSA %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5698 %1 5541 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Gerardina Cargnelutti (gerry@sissa.it) on 2012-04-12T11:43:37Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nPhD_Toader_Rodica.pdf: 6894510 bytes, checksum: 8a7aced562b9372ebb9d7421262ea7f6 (MD5) %0 Journal Article %J Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 96 (1996), 257--277 %D 1996 %T A capacity method for the study of Dirichlet problems for elliptic systems in varying domains %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %B Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Padova 96 (1996), 257--277 %I SISSA Library %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/989 %1 2867 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Made available in DSpace on 2004-09-01T12:41:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0\\n Previous issue date: 1995 %0 Journal Article %J Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste 26 (1994) 339-360 %D 1994 %T Limits of Dirichlet problems in perforated domains: a new formulation %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Rodica Toader %B Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste 26 (1994) 339-360 %I Università degli Studi di Trieste, Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3649 %1 656 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2009-06-16T11:02:31Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\ndalmaso18.pdf: 255148 bytes, checksum: e857ab6de9d63e187905170895a65ccf (MD5)