Equilibrium configurations for epitaxially strained films and material voids in three-dimensional linear elasticity

Absolutely continuous real functions of several variables, functions of bounded variation (26B30) Length, area, volume, other geometric measure theory (28A75) Existence theories for free problems in two or more independent variables (49J10) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Variational problems in a geometric measure-theoretic setting (49Q20) Classical linear elasticity (74B05)

Abstract: We extend the results about existence of minimizers, relaxation, and approximation proven by Chambolle et al. in 2002 and 2007 for an energy related to epitaxially strained crystalline films, and by Braides, Chambolle, and Solci in 2007 for a class of energies defined on pairs of function-set. We study these models in the framework of three-dimensional linear elasticity, where a major obstacle to overcome is the lack of any 'a priori' assumption on the integrability properties of displacements. As a key tool for the proofs, we introduce a new notion of convergence for

(d - 1)

-rectifiable sets that are jumps of

G S B D^{p}

functions, called

s i g m a_{m a t h r m s y m}^{p}

-convergence.

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The goal of the present paper is to extend the results about relaxation, existence and approximation obtained for energies related to \textit{material voids in elastic solids} in [\textit{A. Braides} et al., ESAIM, Control Optim. Calc. Var. 13, No. 4, 717--734 (2007; Zbl 1149.49017)], and \textit{epitaxially strained films} in [\textit{E. Bonnetier} and \textit{A. Chambolle}, SIAM J. Appl. Math. 62, No. 4, 1093--1121 (2002; Zbl 1001.49017)] and [\textit{A. Chambolle} and \textit{M. Solci}, SIAM J. Math. Anal. 39, No. 1, 77--102 (2007; Zbl 1354.49022)], respectively, to the case of linear elasticity in arbitrary space dimensions. To this end, the properties of a newly introduced space of \(GSBD^p\) functions which may also attain a limit value \(\infty\) (denoted by \(GSBD^p_\infty\)) are investigated, as well as a compactness result with respect to a correspondingly novel notion of convergence of sets, for sequences of rectifiable sets with bounded Hausdorff measure is established.

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