- Series
- Applied and Computational Mathematics Seminar
- Time
- Monday, October 25, 2010 - 1:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
- Location
- Skiles 002 (Ground floor, entrance from Skiles courtyard)
- Speaker
- Christopher Larsen – WPI
- Organizer
- Maria Westdickenberg
I will describe a sequence of models for predicting crack paths in brittlematerials, with each model based on some type of variational principleconcerning the energy. These models will cover the natural range ofstatics, quasi-statics, and dynamics. Some existence results will bedescribed, but the emphasis will be on deficiencies of the models and openquestions.