Quasistatic crack growth in finite elasticity with non-interpenetration

  • Gianni Dal Maso

    SISSA, via Beirut 2-4, 34151 Trieste, Italy
  • Giuliano Lazzaroni

    SISSA, via Beirut 2-4, 34151 Trieste, Italy

Abstract

We present a variational model to study the quasistatic growth of brittle cracks in hyperelastic materials, in the framework of finite elasticity, taking into account the non-interpenetration condition.

Cite this article

Gianni Dal Maso, Giuliano Lazzaroni, Quasistatic crack growth in finite elasticity with non-interpenetration. Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Anal. Non Linéaire 27 (2010), no. 1, pp. 257–290

DOI 10.1016/J.ANIHPC.2009.09.006