Elastic membranes spanning deformable boundaries

Authors Francesco Ballarin, Giulia Bevilacqua, Luca Lussardi, A. Marzocchi

Publication date 27 July 2022

Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Minimal surfaces and optimization (49Q05) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Membranes (74K15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Abstract: We perform a variational analysis of an elastic membrane spanning a curve which may sustain bending and torsion. First, we deal with parametrized curves and linear elastic membranes proving the existence of equilibria and finding first-order necessary conditions for minimizers computing the first variation. Second, we study a more general case, both for the boundary curve and the membrane, using the framed curve approach. The infinite dimensional version of the Lagrange multipliers' method is applied to get the first-order necessary conditions. Finally, a numerical approach is presented and employed in several numerical test cases.

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