Modeling and control of asymptotic shells

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The author is an established expert in the theory of thin shells and on the control of vibrations of thin shells. In previous publications (see, for example, ``Intrinsic \(P(2,1)\) thin shell model and Naghdi's models without a priori assumption on the stress tensor [in: K.-H. Hoffmann (ed.) et al., Optimal control of partial differential equations. Proceedings of the IFIP WG 7.2 international conference, Chemnitz, Germany, April 20--25, 1998 (Birkhäuser, Basel), ISNM, Int. Ser. Numer. Math. 133, 99--113 (1999; Zbl 0948.74031)]), he established the so-called \(P(2,1)\) model, approximating the 3-dimensional variational equation based on an assumed constitutive law. Using his intrinsic approach (see ``Intrinsic differential geometric methods in the asymptotic analysis of linear thin shells [in: M. C. Delfour (ed.), Boundaries, interfaces, and transitions. Proceedings of the CRM summer school, Banff, Canada, August 6--18, 1995 (American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI), CRM Proc. Lect. Notes 13, 19--90 (1998; Zbl 0916.73023)]), he approximates the vector whose components are: displacement of the midsurface, rotation of the normal vector and the ``pinching. The approximation is by a polynomial of order two for this vector and of order one for the strain tensor. The basic functional analytic background is given by spaces \(L^2\) and the Sobolev space \(H^1\). The author points out that in the theory of shells the intrinsic methods have several advantages over the classical approach whereby the components of tensors and vectors describing the shell dynamics are restricted to a single description of the midsurface. The author introduces the asymptotic model described by him in the first paper mentioned above. This model separates the modelling of the shell into a membrane equation and the bending equation, projected into a space of inextensible deformation. The reviewer comments that consideration of changes of length, particularly of the midsurface, in each of these processes concerning either thin shells or plates or problems involving elastic instability, causes an appearance of very ugly nonlinear terms, involving coupling of almost all terms of these equations. The author's choice of such a projection achieves decoupling of membrane and bending equations, resulting in a mathematically attractive model. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1030.00056].











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