ENERGY-MINIMAL FINITE DEFORMATIONS OF A SYMMETRICALLY LOADED ELASTIC SHEET

DOI10.1093/qjmam/39.1.111zbMath0574.73052MaRDI QIDQ3692985

G. P. MacSithigh

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/39.1.111

zbMATH Keywords

Lagrange multiplier; spectral representation; Mooney-Rivlin material; isotropic materials; global minimizer; rectangular sheet; strict local minimum; changing number of asymmetric solutions; class of homogeneous minimizers; constrained minimization problem for C(sup 2)-function of finitely-many real variables; critical value of a material parameter; equal tensile dead loads; existence of (at least one) homogeneous equilibrium; homogeneous finite deformations; minimizes the potential energy; qualitative nature of the solution class undergoes a change; ratio of the Mooney-Rivlin constants; second variation conditions; unit square block of incompressible elastic material

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74B20: Nonlinear elasticity

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