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 and , bonded along a prescribed contact surface , 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)