“…It is well-known that the relationship between variational models for brittle fracture and (gradient) damage models can be made rigorous building upon the seminal approximation result of Ambrosio and Tortorelli [5,6] as shown in [33,18,7,8,9,58,43,19], just to mention a few examples. Furthermore, damage models á la Ambrosio-Tortorelli can be also used to approximate fracture models of cohesive-type as shown, e.g., in [1,2,24,29,35,42,16,26].…”