471 research outputs found
Rate-independent evolution of sets
The goal of this work is to analyze a model for the rate-independent
evolution of sets with finite perimeter. The evolution of the admissible sets
is driven by that of a given time-dependent set, which has to include the
admissible sets and hence is to be understood as an external loading. The
process is driven by the competition between perimeter minimization and
minimization of volume changes. \par In the mathematical modeling of this
process, we distinguish the adhesive case, in which the constraint that the
(complement of) the `external load' contains the evolving sets is penalized by
a term contributing to the driving energy functional, from the brittle case,
enforcing this constraint. The existence of Energetic solutions for the
adhesive system is proved by passing to the limit in the associated
time-incremental minimization scheme. In the brittle case, this
time-discretization procedure gives rise to evolving sets satisfying the
stability condition, but it remains an open problem to additionally deduce
energy-dissipation balance in the time-continuous limit. This can be obtained
under some suitable quantification of data.
The properties of the brittle evolution law are illustrated by numerical
examples in two space dimensions.Comment: Dedicated to Alexander Mielke on the occasion of his 60th birthda
Quasistatic damage evolution with spatial BV-regularization
An existence result for energetic solutions of rate-independent damage processes is established. We consider a body consisting of a physically linearly elastic material undergoing infinitesimally small deformations and partial damage. In [ThomasMielke10DamageZAMM] an existence result in the small strain setting was obtained under the assumption that the damage variable z satisfies zâ W1,r(Ω) with râ(1,â) for ΩâRd. We now cover the case r=1. The lack of compactness in W1,1(Ω) requires to do the analysis in BV(Ω). This setting allows it to consider damage variables with values in 0,1. We show that such a brittle damage model is obtained as the Î-limit of functionals of Modica-Mortola type
Uniform Poincaré-Sobolev and relative isoperimetric inequalities for classes of domains
The aim of this paper is to prove an isoperimetric inequality relative to a d-dimensional, bounded, convex domain &Omega intersected with balls with a uniform relative isoperimetric constant, independent of the size of the radius r>0 and the position yâcl(&Omega) of the center of the ball. For this, uniform Sobolev, PoincarĂ© and PoincarĂ©-Sobolev inequalities are deduced for classes of (not necessarily convex) domains that satisfy a uniform cone property. It is shown that the constants in all of these inequalities solely depend on the dimensions of the cone, space dimension d, the diameter of the domain and the integrability exponent pâ[1,d)
Uniform Poincaré--Sobolev and relative isoperimetric inequalities for classes of domains
The aim of this paper is to prove an isoperimetric inequality relative to a d-dimensional, bounded, convex domain &Omega intersected with balls with a uniform relative isoperimetric constant, independent of the size of the radius r>0 and the position yâcl(&Omega) of the center of the ball. For this, uniform Sobolev, Poincar'e and Poincar'e-Sobolev inequalities are deduced for classes of (not necessarily convex) domains that satisfy a uniform cone property. It is shown that the constants in all of these inequalities solely depend on the dimensions of the cone, space dimension d, the diameter of the domain and the integrability exponent pâ[1,d)
Quasistatic damage evolution with spatial BV-regularization
An existence result for energetic solutions of rate-independent damage processes is established. We consider a body consisting of a physically linearly elastic material undergoing infinitesimally small deformations and partial damage. In [ThomasMielke10DamageZAMM] an existence result in the small strain setting was obtained under the assumption that the damage variable z satisfies zâ W1,r(Ω) with râ(1,â) for ΩâRd. We now cover the case r=1. The lack of compactness in W1,1(Ω) requires to do the analysis in BV(Ω). This setting allows it to consider damage variables with values in 0,1. We show that such a brittle damage model is obtained as the Î-limit of functionals of Modica-Mortola type
A comparison of delamination models: Modeling, properties, and applications
This contribution presents recent results in the modeling and the
analysis of delamination problems. It addresses adhesive contact, brittle,
and cohesive zone models both in a quasistatic and a viscous, dynamic setting
for the bulk part. Also different evolution laws for the delaminating surface
are discussed
Damage of nonlinearly elastic materials at small strain --- Existence and regularity results
In this paper an existence result for energetic solutions of
rate-independent damage processes is established and the temporal
regularity of the solution is discussed. We consider a body
consisting of a physically nonlinearly elastic material undergoing
small deformations and partial damage. The present work is a
generalization of [Mielke-Roubicek 2006] concerning the properties of the
stored elastic energy density as well as the suitable Sobolev space
for the damage variable: While previous work assumes that the damage
variable z satisfies z \â W^{1,r} (\Omega) with r>d for
\Omega \â \R^d, we can handle the case r>1 by a new technique
for the construction of joint recovery sequences.
Moreover, this work generalizes the temporal regularity results
to physically nonlinearly elastic materials
by analyzing Lipschitz- and Hölder-continuity of solutions with
respect to time
Cohesive zone-type delamination in visco-elasticity : to the occasion of the 60th anniversary of TomaĆĄ RoubĂcek
We study a model for the rate-independent evolution of cohesive zone
delamination in a viscoelastic solid, also exposed to dynamics effects. The
main feature of this model, inspired by [OP99], is that the surface energy
related to the crack opening depends on the history of the crack separation
between the two sides of the crack path, and allows for different responses
upon loading and unloading. Due to the presence of multivalued and unbounded
operators featuring non-penetration and the memory-constraint in the strong
formulation of the problem, we prove existence of a weaker notion of
solution, known as semistable energetic solution, pioneered in [Rou09] and
refined in [RT15a]
From nonlinear to linear elasticity in a coupled rate-dependent/independent system for brittle delamination
We revisit the weak, energetic-type existence results obtained in [Rossi/Thomas-ESAIM-COCV-21(1):1-59,2015] for a system for rate-independent, brittle delamination between two visco-elastic, physically nonlinear bulk materials and explain how to rigorously extend such results to the case of visco-elastic, linearly elastic bulk materials. Our approximation result is essentially based on deducing the Mosco-convergence of the functionals involved in the energetic formulation of the system. We apply this approximation result in two different situations: Firstly, to pass from a nonlinearly elastic to a linearly elastic, brittle model on the time-continuous level, and secondly, to pass from a time-discrete to a time-continuous model using an adhesive contact approximation of the brittle model, in combination with a vanishing, super-quadratic regularization of the bulk energy. The latter approach is beneficial if the model also accounts for the evolution of temperature
Coupling rate-independent and rate-dependent processes: Existence results
We address the analysis of an abstract system coupling a
rate-independent process with a second order (in time) nonlinear evolution
equation. We propose suitable weak solution concepts and obtain existence
results by passing to the limit in carefully devised time-discretization
schemes. Our arguments combine techniques from the theory of gradient systems
with the toolbox for rate-independent evolution, thus reflecting the mixed
character of the problem. Finally, we discuss applications to a class of
rate-independent processes in visco-elastic solids with inertia, and to a
recently proposed model for damage with plasticity
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