Volume 41_3-4_(2020)_275-299

Damage dynamics: A variational approach
Adriana Garroni, Christopher J. Larsen, David Sarrocco

Abstract. In this paper we construct, by means of a variational formulation, the solutions of a problem of elastodynamics which includes the effect of damage for the elastic material. The result is a wave equation with time dependent operators which represents the elastic coefficients of the material undergoing damage. The dynamics that we construct also satisfies a threshold condition with the same threshold value that characterizes the quasi-static evolution of damage (see [12]).

Rend. Mat. Appl. (7) 41 (2020) 275-299;  pdf