Constrained relative motions in rotational mechanics (Q1814296)

``Large'' motions of hyperelastic bodies are rarely studied; even existence and uniqueness theorems are usually proved under boundary conditions of place that impede global motions. Furthermore interpenetration in the large is absolutely excluded and self-contact admitted only in very recent analyses. Large motions are better understood by imagining them as the superposition of a gross rigid motion and a relative perturbation. The splitting is particularly appearing when the body under consideration is made up of a rigid bulk and of flexible appendages. Here the gross motion is taken to be a rotation (as happens in some space objects), and particular attention is drawn on the fact that steady- states and transients may be dramatically changed if, for simplicity, apparently harmless and seemingly justified constraints are introduced; it is shown, in particular, how such constitutive restrictions give rise to qualitative differences in dynamic equilibria of planar rotating body- beam systems. The reviewer regrets that the memoir is not as elegant and terse as one expects in the Archive.