The Variational Approach to Fracture

• Main Authors: Bourdin, Blaise (Author), Francfort, Gilles A. (Author), Marigo, Jean-Jacques (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2008.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Mathematical models.; Continuum mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Mathematical Modeling and Industrial Mathematics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.

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Table of Contents:

• Going variational
• Stationarity versus local or global minimality – A comparison
• Initiation
• Irreversibility
• Path
• Griffith vs. Barenblatt
• Numerics and Griffith
• Fatigue.