Damage-driven fracture with low-order potentials: asymptotic behavior, existence and applications

We study the $\Gamma$-convergence of damage to fracture energy functionals in the presence of low-order nonlinear potentials that allows us to model physical phenomena such as fluid-driven fracturing, plastic slip, and the satisfaction of kinematical constraints such as crack non-interpenetration. Existence results are also addressedComment: 41 pages, 4 Figure

A Compactness Theorem for functions on Poisson point clouds

In this work we show a compactness Theorem for discrete functions on Poisson point clouds. We consider sequences with equibounded non-local $p$-Dirichlet energy: the novelty consists in the intermediate-interaction regime at which the non-local energy is computed

A note on the stability of the Cheeger constant of NN-gons

The regular $N$-gon provides the minimal Cheeger constant in the class of all $N$-gons with fixed volume. This result is due to a work of Bucur and Fragal\`a in 2014. In this note, we address the stability of their result in terms of the $L^1$ distance between sets. Furthermore, we provide a stability inequality in terms of the Hausdorff distance between the boundaries of sets in the class of polygons having uniformly bounded diameter. Finally, we show that our results are sharp, both in the exponent of decay and in the notion of distance between sets.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure

On the Gamma Convergence of Functionals Defined Over Pairs of Measures and Energy-Measures

A novel general framework for the study of $\Gamma$-convergence of functionals defined over pairs of measures and energy-measures is introduced. This theory allows us to identify the $\Gamma$-limit of these kind of functionals by knowing the $\Gamma$-limit of the underlining energies. In particular, the interaction between the functionals and the underlining energies results, in the case these latter converge to a non continuous energy, in an additional effect in the relaxation process. This study was motivated by a question in the context of epitaxial growth evolution with adatoms. Interesting cases of application of the general theory are also presented