Homogenized interface model describing inhomogeneities located on a surface (Q693184)

The authors describe the influence at higher orders of heterogeneities present in an elastic material. They consider a 3D domain \(\Omega \) filled in with a linear elastic material whose constitutive equation is given as \( \sigma =A:\varepsilon (u)\). The material is submitted to the gravity forces and the equilibrium equation is written as \(\text{div}(\sigma )+\rho g=0\). The nonhomogeneous boundary conditions \(u=u^{d}\) on \(\partial _{u}\Omega \) and \(\sigma \cdot n=F\) on \(\partial _{F}\Omega \) are imposed, where \( \partial \Omega =\partial _{u}\Omega \cup \partial _{F}\Omega \) in a disjoint way. The domain \(\Omega \) is supposed to contain heterogeneities disposed on a surface \(\Gamma \) in a periodic or a quasi-periodic way which can be associated to a small parameter \(\eta \). The solution \((u,\sigma )\) of the preceding stationary problem thus depends on \(\eta \). The authors introduce outer (resp. inner) asymptotic expansions of \(u^{\eta }\) and \( \sigma ^{\eta }\) far from (resp. close to) the surface \(\Gamma\). The main part of the paper describes the problems obtained at different orders, when taking the boundary conditions and the matching conditions. The authors specially focus on the second order problems which are linked to lower order ones. They show how the effective limit problems can be obtained from their analysis. The paper ends with some examples.