%0 Report %D 2015 %T A bridging mechanism in the homogenisation of brittle composites with soft inclusions %A Marco Barchiesi %A Giuliano Lazzaroni %A Caterina Ida Zeppieri %X We provide a homogenisation result for the energy-functional associated with a purely brittle composite whose microstructure is characterised by soft periodic inclusions embedded in a stiffer matrix. We show that the two constituents as above can be suitably arranged on a microscopic scale ε to obtain, in the limit as ε tends to zero, a homogeneous macroscopic energy-functional explicitly depending on the opening of the crack. %I SISSA %G en %U http://urania.sissa.it/xmlui/handle/1963/7492 %1 7621 %$ Submitted by Maria Pia Calandra (calapia@sissa.it) on 2015-01-26T14:21:23Z No. of bitstreams: 1 BarLazZep-soft-2015(1).pdf: 488285 bytes, checksum: 252f196c34b0c22b00f3de1f36190176 (MD5)