%0 Journal Article %J Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 31 (2008) 137-145 %D 2008 %T Gradient bounds for minimizers of free discontinuity problems related to cohesive zone models in fracture mechanics %A Gianni Dal Maso %A Adriana Garroni %X In this note we consider a free discontinuity problem for a scalar function, whose energy depends also on the size of the jump. We prove that the gradient of every smooth local minimizer never exceeds a constant, determined only by the data of the problem. %B Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations 31 (2008) 137-145 %G en_US %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1723 %1 2428 %2 Mathematics %3 Functional Analysis and Applications %$ Submitted by Andrea Wehrenfennig (andreaw@sissa.it) on 2006-01-26T12:52:13Z\\nNo. of bitstreams: 1\\nmath.AP0507088.pdf: 132125 bytes, checksum: 444c743b7852d0f6e97bb318f49b4467 (MD5) %R 10.1007/s00526-006-0084-3