Quasistatic cohesive-type crack growthOberseminar Analysis

by Prof. Vito Crismale (Sapienza University Rome)

Tuesday May 19, 2026, 2:15 PM → 4:15 PM Europe/Berlin

Endenicher Allee 60/2. OG.-040 - Room 2.040 (Mathezentrum)

With Prof. Manuel Friedrich (JKU Linz), we proved the existence of globally stable quasistatic evolutions for cohesive-type crack energies in the SBVp framework. The crack path is not prescribed a priori nor subject to any topological restriction, and the result is valid in any dimension. This generalizes to a cohesive setting the existence result by Francfort and Larsen in 2003.