Discrete-to-continuum limits for strain-alignment-coupled systems: magnetostrictive solids, ferroelectric crystals and nematic elastomers

DOI10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667zbMath1183.49013WikidataQ59202216 ScholiaQ59202216MaRDI QIDQ2268227

Caterina Ida Zeppieri, Marco Cicalese, Antonio De Simone

Publication date: 10 March 2010

Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667

zbMATH Keywords

linear elasticity; discrete systems; \(\Gamma\)-convergence; liquid crystals; magnetostrictive solids; nematic elastomers; ferroelectric crystals

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B05: Classical linear elasticity

49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation

76A15: Liquid crystals

82D45: Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics

49M25: Discrete approximations in optimal control

82D40: Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials

49S05: Variational principles of physics