Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
839813 Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods & Applications 2014 18 Pages PDF
Abstract

We present a variational model for the quasi-static crack growth in hydraulic fracture in the framework of the energy formulation of rate-independent processes. The cracks are assumed to lie on a prescribed plane and to satisfy a very weak regularity assumption.

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