Asymptotic Analysis of a Viscoelastic Flexural Shell Model

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Authors G. Castiñeira, Ángel Rodríguez-Arós

Publication date 31 October 2017

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic expansions of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E05) Perturbations, asymptotics of solutions to ordinary differential equations (34E10) Asymptotic theory of functional-differential equations (34K25) Second-order elliptic equations (35J15) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Asymptotic approximations, asymptotic expansions (steepest descent, etc.) (41A60) Linear constitutive equations for materials with memory (74D05) Shells (74K25)

Abstract: We consider a family of linearly viscoelastic shells with thickness $2varepsilon$, clamped along a portion of their lateral face, all having the same middle surface $$, where $omegasubsetmathbb{R}^2$ is a bounded and connected open set with a Lipschitz-continuous boundary $gamma$. We show that, if the applied body force density is $O(varepsilo{n}^2)$ with respect to $varepsilon$ and surface tractions density is $O(varepsilo{n}^3)$, the solution of the scaled variational problem in curvilinear coordinates, $mathbfu(varepsilon)$, defined over the fixed domain $Omega=omegaimes(-1,1)$, converges to a limit $mathbfu$ in $H^1(0,T;[H^1(Omega){]}^3)$ as $varepsilonightarrow0$. Moreover, we prove that this limit is independent of the transverse variable. Furthermore, the average $$, which belongs to the space $H^1(0,T;V_F(omega))$, where ${\displaystyle }$ V_F(omega):= { mathbf{eta}=(eta_i)in H^1(omega) imes H^1(omega) imes H^2(omega) ; eta_i=partial_ u eta_3=0 extrm{on} gamma_0, gamma_{alpha �eta}(mathbf{eta})=0 extrm{ in } omega }, ${\displaystyle }$ satisfies what we have identified as (scaled) two-dimensional equations of a viscoelastic flexural shell, which includes a long-term memory that takes into account previous deformations. We finally provide convergence results which justify those equations.

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