Published Paper

Inserted: 21 dec 2017
Last Updated: 10 feb 2023

Journal: Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.
Year: 2020

Abstract:

We study optimal regularity and free boundary for minimizers of an energy functional arising in cohesive zone models for fracture mechanics. Under smoothness assumptions on the boundary conditions and on the fracture energy density, we show that minimizers are $C^{1, 1/2}$, and that near non-degenerate points the fracture set is $C^{1, \alpha}$, for some $\alpha \in (0, 1)$.

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