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In the present paper we propose a simple method for dealing with growth control of cracks under contact type boundary conditions on their lips. The aim is to find a mechanism for decreasing the energy release rate of cracked components, which means increasing their fracture toughness. The method consists in minimizing a shape functional defined in terms of the Rice’s integral, with respect to the...
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