A calibration method for estimating critical cavitation loads from below in three dimensional nonlinear elasticity

DOI10.1137/17M1141837zbMATH Open1392.49010arXiv1707.08532WikidataQ129830755 ScholiaQ129830755MaRDI QIDQ4640170FDOQ4640170

Authors: Jonathan J. Bevan, Jonathan Deane 

Publication date: 16 May 2018

Published in: SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: In this paper we give an explicit sufficient condition for the affine map $u_{l}ambda(x):=lambdax$ to be the global energy minimizer of a general class of elastic stored-energy functionals $I(u)=in{t}_{Omega}W(ablau),dx$ in three space dimensions, where $W$ is a polyconvex function of $3imes3$ matrices. The function space setting is such that cavitating (i.e., discontinuous) deformations are admissible. In the language of the calculus of variations, the condition ensures the quasiconvexity of $I(cdot)$ at $lambdamathbf1$, where $mathbf1$ is the $3imes3$ identity matrix. Our approach relies on arguments involving null Lagrangians (in this case, affine combinations of the minors of $3imes3$ matrices), on the previous work Bevan & Zeppieri, 2015, and on a careful numerical treatment to make the calculation of certain constants tractable. We also derive a new condition, which seems to depend heavily on the smallest singular value $lambd{a}_1(ablau)$ of a competing deformation $u$, that is necessary for the inequality $I(u)<I(u_{lambda})$, and which, in particular, does not exclude the possibility of cavitation.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.08532

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zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear elasticityquasiconvexitycavitationcritical calibrationenergy affine minimizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Methods involving semicontinuity and convergence; relaxation (49J45) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20)

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