A MODEL FOR THE QUASI-STATIC GROWTH OF BRITTLE FRACTURES BASED ON LOCAL MINIMIZATION
A MODEL FOR THE QUASI-STATIC GROWTH OF BRITTLE FRACTURES BASED ON LOCAL MINIMIZATION
We study a variant of the variational model for the quasi-static growth of brittle fractures proposed by Francfort and Marigo. 9 The main feature of our model is that, in the discrete-time formulation, in each step we do not consider absolute minimizers of the energy, but, in a sense, we …