This paper focuses on (incomplete) rate-independent damage in elastic bodies. Since the
driving energy is nonconvex, solutions may have jumps as a function of time, and in this …

The original paper [Francfort and Marigo 1998] and the subsequent developments were
based on the brittle fracture model of Griffith [1920], in which the presence of singular …

An existence result for the quasi-static evolution of incomplete damage in elastic materials is
presented. The absence of gradient terms in the damage variable causes a critical lack of …

In this paper we study a model for phase separation and damage in thermoviscoelastic
materials. The main novelty of the paper consists in the fact that, in contrast with previous …

The analysis of material models which allow for complete damage is of major interest in
material sciences and has received an increasing attraction in the recent years. In this work …

In this work, we analytically investigate a multi-component system for describing phase
separation and damage processes in solids. The model consists of a parabolic diffusion …

The authors explore a unifying model which couples phase separation and damage
processes in a system of partial differential equations. The model has technological …

In this paper we anticipate some results of a work in progress (Del Piero et al., 2012), in
which the phenomena of fracture and yielding are described by a cohesive energy model …

In this work, we analytically investigate a multi-component system for describing phase
separation and damage processes in solids. The model consists of a parabolic diffusion …

This thesis is devoted to the analytical study of rate-independent damage process in
physically linearly two-phases elastic materials. The study is done through an energetic …