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

DOI10.1137/17M1141837MaRDI QIDQ4640170zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors Jonathan J. Bevan, Jonathan Deane

Publication date 16 May 2018

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

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

zbMATH Keywords

nonlinear elasticityquasiconvexitycavitationcritical calibrationenergy affine minimizer

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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.

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