TY - JOUR T1 - Fracture and plastic models as Gamma-limits of damage models under different regimes JF - Advances in Calculus of Variations., to appear. Y1 - 2011 A1 - Flaviana Iurlano AB -

We consider a variational model for damaged elastic materials. This model depends on three small parameters, which are related to the cost of the damage, to the width of the damaged regions, and to the minimum elasticity constant attained in the damaged regions. As these parameters tend to zero, our models Gamma-converge to a model for brittle fracture, for fracture with a cohesive zone, or for perfect plasticity, depending on the asymptotic ratios of the three parameters.

PB - Walter de Gruyter UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/5069 U1 - 4883 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications U4 - -1 ER -