• Media type: Text; E-Book; Report
  • Title: Rate-independent damage in thermo-viscoelastic materials with inertia
  • Contributor: Lazzaroni, Giuliano [Author]; Rossi, Riccarda [Author]; Thomas, Marita [Author]; Toader, Rodica [Author]
  • imprint: Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics publication server, 2014
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.20347/WIAS.PREPRINT.2025
  • Keywords: 74H20 ; Partial damage -- rate-independent systems -- elastodynamics -- phase-field models -- heat equation -- energetic solutions -- local solutions ; 74C05 ; 35Q74 ; 74R05 ; 74F05 ; article
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  • Description: We present a model for rate-independent, unidirectional, partial damage in visco-elastic materials with inertia and thermal effects. The damage process is modeled by means of an internal variable, governed by a rate-independent flow rule. The heat equation and the momentum balance for the displacements are coupled in a highly nonlinear way. Our assumptions on the corresponding energy functional also comprise the case of the Ambrosio-Tortorelli phase-field model (without passage to the brittle limit). We discuss a suitable weak formulation and prove an existence theorem obtained with the aid of a (partially) decoupled time-discrete scheme and variational convergence methods. We also carry out the asymptotic analysis for vanishing viscosity and inertia and obtain a fully rate-independent limit model for displacements and damage, which is independent of temperature.