Limits of elastic models of converging Riemannian manifolds

DOI10.1007/S00526-016-0979-6zbMATH Open1338.74013arXiv1511.02405OpenAlexW3106536110WikidataQ115387340 ScholiaQ115387340MaRDI QIDQ283580FDOQ283580

Authors: Raz Kupferman, Cy Maor 

Publication date: 13 May 2016

Published in: Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In non-linear incompatible elasticity, the configurations are maps from a non-Euclidean body manifold into the ambient Euclidean space, $mathbb{R}^k$. We prove the $Gamma$-convergence of elastic energies for configurations of a converging sequence, $mathcal{M}_{n}omathcalM$, of body manifolds. This convergence result has several implications: (i) It can be viewed as a general structural stability property of the elastic model. (ii) It applies to certain classes of bodies with defects, and in particular, to the limit of bodies with increasingly dense edge-dislocations. (iii) It applies to approximation of elastic bodies by piecewise-affine manifolds. In the context of continuously-distributed dislocations, it reveals that the torsion field, which has been used traditionally to quantify the density of dislocations, is immaterial in the limiting elastic model.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02405

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of differential geometry to physics (53Z05) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Effective constitutive equations in solid mechanics (74Q15)

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