Kuttler, Kenneth2021-07-142021-07-142005-12-12Kuttler, K. (2005). Quasistatic evolution of damage in an elastic-viscoplastic material. <i>Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, 2005</i>(147), pp. 1-25.1072-6691https://hdl.handle.net/10877/13872The mathematical theory of quasistatic elastic viscoplastic models with damage is studied. The existence of the unique local weak solution is established by using approximate problems and a priori estimates. Pointwise estimates on the damage are obtained using a new comparison technique which removes the necessity of including a subgradient term in the equation for damage.Text25 pages1 file (.pdf)enAttribution 4.0 InternationalExistence and uniquenessDamageComparison theoremsElastic viscoplastic materialsArticleThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.