Delamination problems.
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Contact problems of elastic solids with activated,
rate-independent delamination on the contact boundary (also
called debonding or adhesive contacts) will be addressed.
Models at large or small strains will be presented first
in a quasistatic formulation based on the concept of energetic
solutions. In particular, a brittle delamination model of
the Griffith type is exposed and shown to be a limit of a
delamination with elastically responding glue that can be thus
understood as a regularization which is also suitable to numerical
implementation. Further extension to dynamical contact problems in
visco-elastic solids and its possible thermodynamics will be briefly
outlined, too. The talk will include also results from joint works
with M.Kocvara, A.Mielke, L.Scardia, and C.Zanini.