A cohesive crack propagation model: Mathematical theory and numerical solution

Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1705-1729

  Leugering, Günter ^a   Prechtel, Marina ^a   Steinmann, Paul ^b   Stingl, Michael ^c  

^a Applied Mathematics II   (Germany)

^b Applied Mechanics   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cohesive elements; Crack problems; Energy minimization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873323353     PISSN: 15340392     EISSN: 15535258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/cpaa.2013.12.1705     Document Type: Article

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