Revisiting brittle fracture as an energy minimization problem

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1319-1342

  Francfort, G A ^a   Marigo, J J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 13   (France)

Author keywords

Energy methods; Energy release rate; Fracture; Fracture toughness; Variational calculus

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ENERGY METHOD; ENERGY RELEASE RATE;

BRITTLE FRACTURE;

EID: 0032139947     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00034-9     Document Type: Article

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