You are hereHome Some models of crack growth in brittle materials Candidate: Simone RaccaSupervisor: Gianni Dal MasoAcademic Year: 2012-2013Research Group: Mathematical Analysis, Modelling, and ApplicationsPresent Position: Seller at GeneraliFile: Racca_PhDThesis.pdfPublication Related to the Thesis: S. Racca, A model for crack growth with branching and kinking, Asymptot. Anal., to appear. S. Racca, A viscosity-driven crack evolution, Adv. Calc. Var., 5 (2012), pp. 433-483. S. Racca and R. Toader, A variational model for the quasi-static growth of fractional dimensional brittlefractures, submitted (2013). Search form Search Openings Call of interest for positions in mathematics at SISSA Public Calls for Professors Temporary Researchers Post Doctoral Fellowships Open positions in MathLab SISSA Mathematical Fellowships PhD Scolarships SIS Fellowships Pre-PhD Fellowships MSc in Mathematics Master Degree in Data Science and Scientific Computing Professional Master Courses SISSA Mathematics Medals Upcoming events Valentina Beorchia, Valeria Chiadò Piat, Maria Strazullo SISSA Women in Mathematics 2024 Monday, May 13, 2024 - 14:15 Room: A 128-129 and online Antonio De Rosa Min-max construction of anisotropic CMC surfaces Thursday, May 16, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00 Room: A-133 Mattia Fogagnolo The isoperimetric mass in nonnegative scalar curvature beyond smoothness and asymptotic flatness Thursday, May 30, 2024 - 14:00 to 16:00 Room: A-133 Marco Pozzetta TBA Thursday, June 13, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00 Room: A-133 Recent publications I. Prusak; D. Torlo; M. Nonino; G. Rozza, Optimisation–Based Coupling of... M. Berti; A. Maspero; P. Ventura, Benjamin-Feir Instability of S... M. Berti; A. Maspero; P. Ventura, Stokes waves at the critical d... S. Carano, Relaxed area of $0$-homogeneou...