Homogenization of weakly coercive integral functionals in three-dimensional linear elasticity

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Abstract: This paper deals with the homogenization through Gamma-convergence of weakly coercive integral energies with the oscillating density mathbbL(x/epsilon)ablav:ablav in three-dimensional elasticity. The energies are weakly coercive in the sense where the classical functional coercivity satisfied by the periodic tensor L (using smooth test functions v with compact support in mathbbR3) which reads as Lambda(mathbbL)>0, is replaced by the relaxed condition Lambda(mathbbL)ge0. Surprisingly, we prove that contrary to the two-dimensional case of [2] which seems a priori more constrained, the homogenized tensor mathbbL0 remains strongly elliptic, or equivalently Lambda(mathbbL0)>0, for any tensor mathbbL=mathbbL(y1) satisfying mathbbL(y)M:M+D:mCof(M)ge0, a.e. yinmathbbR3, forallMinmathbbR3imes3, for some matrix DinmathbbR3imes3 (which implies Lambda(mathbbL)ge0), and the periodic functional coercivity (using smooth test functions v with periodic gradients) which reads as Lambdamper(mathbbL)>0. Moreover, we derive the loss of strong ellipticity for the homogenized tensor using a rank-two lamination, which justifies by Gamma-convergence the formal procedure of [8].









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