On a discrete-to-continuum convergence result for a two dimensional brittle material in the small displacement regime

Manuel Friedrich; Bernd Schmidt

doi:10.3934/nhm.2015.10.321

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On a discrete-to-continuum convergence result for a two dimensional brittle material in the small displacement regime

Manuel Friedrich^1, and
Bernd Schmidt^1,

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Universität Augsburg, Institut für Mathematik, Universitätsstr. 14, 86159 Augsburg

Received: February 28, 2014

Revised: September 30, 2014

Published: May 2015

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We consider a two-dimensional atomic mass spring system and show that in the small displacement regime the corresponding discrete energies can be related to a continuum Griffith energy functional in the sense of $\Gamma$-convergence. We also analyze the continuum problem for a rectangular bar under tensile boundary conditions and find that depending on the boundary loading the minimizers are either homogeneous elastic deformations or configurations that are completely cracked generically along a crystallographic line. As applications we discuss cleavage properties of strained crystals and an effective continuum fracture energy for magnets.

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Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 74R10, 49J45, 70G75.

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