Discrete-to-continuum limits for strain-alignment-coupled systems: magnetostrictive solids, ferroelectric crystals and nematic elastomers
DOI10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667zbMath1183.49013WikidataQ59202216 ScholiaQ59202216MaRDI QIDQ2268227
Caterina Ida Zeppieri, Marco Cicalese, Antonio De Simone
Publication date: 10 March 2010
Published in: Networks and Heterogeneous Media (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.3934/nhm.2009.4.667
linear elasticity; discrete systems; \(\Gamma\)-convergence; liquid crystals; magnetostrictive solids; nematic elastomers; ferroelectric crystals
74B05: Classical linear elasticity
49J45: Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation
76A15: Liquid crystals
82D45: Statistical mechanics of ferroelectrics
49M25: Discrete approximations in optimal control
82D40: Statistical mechanics of magnetic materials
49S05: Variational principles of physics
