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Dynamic crack growth in viscoelastic materials with memory

arXiv:2510.20599 · doi:10.1007/s00032-023-00384-3

Abstract

In this paper we introduce a model of dynamic crack growth in viscoelastic material, where the damping term depends on the history of the deformation. The model is based on a dynamic energy dissipation balance and on a maximal dissipation condition. Our main result is an existence theorem in dimension two under some a priori regularity constraints on the cracks.

Published in 2023