Stress‐driven local solution approach to quasistatic brittle delamination

This contribution reports on a model describing the rate‐independent evolution of brittle delamination between two elastic bodies $\Omega_{+} \subset {\rm I\!R}^{d}$ and $\Omega_{-} \subset {\rm I\!R}^{d}, d \geq 2$ , bonded along a prescribed contact surface $\Gamma_{C} \subset {\rm I\!R}^{d-1}$ , over a fixed time interval (0, T ). In contrast to [1], which is set in the framework of energetic solutions, here the existence and properties of so‐called local solutions are studied; a detailed discussion and a rigorous mathematical analysis of this model can be found in [2]. (© 2014 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)