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Quasistatic cohesive-type crack growth

15 Jul 2026, 12:10

50m

Aula Dini (Palazzo del Castelletto)

Speaker

Vito Crismale (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Description

With Manuel Friedrich (JKU Linz), we proved the existence of globally stable quasistatic evolutions for cohesive-type crack energies in the SBVp framework.
The crack path is not prescribed a priori nor subject to any topological restriction, and the result is valid in any dimension. This generalizes to a cohesive setting the existence result by Francfort and Larsen in 2003.