Some sufficient conditions for lower semicontinuity in SBD and applications to minimum problems

✍ Scribed by Giuliano Gargiulo; Elvira Zappale

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 211 KB
• Volume: 34
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0170-4214
• DOI: 10.1002/mma.1464

✦ Synopsis

We provide some lower semicontinuity results in the space of special functions of bounded deformation for energies of the type

and give some examples and applications to minimum problems, arising in Fracture Mechanics for linearly elastic materials.