Abstract: I will present recent works about the minimisation of the Griffith energy for brittle fracture in elastic materials, under Dirichlet boundary conditions. Together with Antonin Chambolle (CMAP, à cole Polytechnique) we have proven the existence of minimisers and a phase-field approximation à la Ambrosio-Tortorelli for this energy. ; Non UBC ; Unreviewed ; Author affiliation: Ecole Polytechnique ; Postdoctoral
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