On the convexity of nonlinear elastic energies in the right Cauchy-Green tensor

DOI10.1007/S10659-016-9601-6zbMATH Open1368.74013arXiv1508.05721OpenAlexW2319229205MaRDI QIDQ2014246FDOQ2014246

Ionel Roventa, Patrizio Neff, Christian Thiel, David Y. Gao

Publication date: 10 August 2017

Published in: Journal of Elasticity (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We present a sufficient condition under which a weak solution of the Euler-Lagrange equations in nonlinear elasticity is already a global minimizer of the corresponding elastic energy functional. This criterion is applicable to energies $W(F)=widehatW(F^{T}F)=widehatW(C)$ which are convex with respect to the right Cauchy-Green tensor $C=F^{T}F$, where $F$ denotes the gradient of deformation. Examples of such energies exhibiting a blow up for $detFo0$ are given.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1508.05721

zbMATH Keywords

convexitynonlinear elasticityglobal minimizerssecond Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Convexity of real functions of several variables, generalizations (26B25) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Energy minimization in equilibrium problems in solid mechanics (74G65)

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