On the theory of relaxation in nonlinear elasticity with constraints on the determinant

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Abstract: We consider vectorial variational problems in nonlinear elasticity of the form I[u]=intW(Du)dx, where W is continuous on matrices with positive determinant and diverges to infinity long sequences of matrices whose determinant is positive and tends to zero. We show that, under suitable growth assumptions, the functional intWqc(Du)dx is an upper bound on the relaxation of I, and coincides with the relaxation if the quasiconvex envelope Wqc of W is polyconvex and has p-growth from below with pgen. This includes several physically relevant examples. We also show how a constraint of incompressibility can be incorporated in our results.



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