Material instabilities in nematic elastomers

DOI10.1016/S0167-2789(99)00153-0zbMath0947.76005WikidataQ59202376 ScholiaQ59202376MaRDI QIDQ1961666

Georg Dolzmann, Antonio De Simone

Publication date: 2 November 2000

Published in: Physica D (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

phase transitionsfree-energy densitycalculus of variationsliquid crystalsnematic elastomersdomain structuresenergy wellsquasi-convex hullminimization of nonconvex free energyeffective macroscopic energyelastomeric polymersquasi-convex envelopesoft deformations paths

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational methods applied to problems in fluid mechanics (76M30) Statistical mechanics of random media, disordered materials (including liquid crystals and spin glasses) (82D30) Liquid crystals (76A15) Hydrodynamic stability (76E99)

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