CDF-Generated Damage Laws: Admissibility, Gamma-Convergence to Griffith Fracture, and Well-Posedness

Huilong Ren

We formulate a family of scalar softening laws by setting the stored-energy density $\psi (\eta )={\int }_0^{\eta }[1-F(s)]ds$, where $F$ ranges over exponential, Cauchy, logistic, half-normal,…