@article {2006, title = {An artificial viscosity approach to quasistatic crack growth}, number = {SISSA;43/2006/M}, year = {2006}, abstract = {We introduce a new model of irreversible quasistatic crack growth in which the evolution of cracks is the limit of a suitably modified $\\\\epsilon$-gradient flow of the energy functional, as the \\\"viscosity\\\" parameter $\\\\epsilon$ tends to zero.}, url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/1850}, author = {Rodica Toader and Chiara Zanini} }