%0 Thesis %D 2013 %T Some models of crack growth in brittle materials %A Simone Racca %K Quasi-static crack evolution %I SISSA %G en %1 7205 %2 Mathematics %4 1 %# MAT/05 ANALISI MATEMATICA %$ Submitted by Simone Racca (sracca@sissa.it) on 2013-10-23T13:11:13Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Racca_PhDThesis.pdf: 1710871 bytes, checksum: ea174e98f8849253e71cdefa52c6c8b8 (MD5) %] Introduction Chapter 1. Preliminaries Chapter 2. A viscosity-driven crack evolution Chapter 3.A variational model for the quasi-static growth of fractional dimensional brittle fractures Chapter 4. A model for crack growth with branching and kinking Bibliography