Some necessary conditions at an internal boundary for minimizers in finite elasticity (Q1198451)

Considering a piecewise homogeneous deformable body, the authors establish four conditions upon the elasticity tensors \(C^ +(x_ 0,\nabla f(x_ 0))\) and \(C^ -(x_ 0,\nabla f(x_ 0))\) that are necessary for a continuous, piecewise smooth deformation \(f\) to be a weak relative minimizer for the total energy. The four above necessary conditions are the Legendre-Hadamard's and Agmon's ones and two other conditions established by the authors. Near these four necessary conditions the authors establish also sufficient conditions on \(C^ +\) and \(C^ -\) for the non-negativity of the second variation. In the particular case of a two isotropic materials, separated by an internal boundary, they find necessary and sufficient conditions, as application of their general results.