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

DOI10.1007/S10659-016-9601-6MaRDI QIDQ2014246zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

Publication date 10 August 2017

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

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)

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.

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