Twists and shear maps in nonlinear elasticity: explicit solutions and vanishing Jacobians

DOI10.1017/PRM.2018.90MaRDI QIDQ4960362zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jonathan J. Bevan, Sandra Käbisch

Publication date 15 April 2020

Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Section A Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.00160, http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/844879/1/twist_shear_2_Oct_17.pdf

zbMATH Keywords

energy minimiserJacobian constraintsregularityuniqueness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Variational inequalities (49J40) Variational principles of physics (49S05) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20)

Abstract: In this paper we study constrained variational problems that are principally motivated by nonlinear elasticity theory. We examine in particular the relationship between the positivity of the Jacobian $detablau$ and the uniqueness and regularity of energy minimizers $u$ that are either twist maps or shear maps. We exhibit emph{explicit} twist maps, defined on two-dimensional annuli, that are stationary points of an appropriate energy functional and whose Jacobian vanishes on a set of positive measure in the annulus. Within the class of shear maps we precisely characterize the unique global energy minimizer $u_{sigma}:Omegaomathbb{R}^2$ in a model, two-dimensional case. The shear map minimizer has the properties that (i) $detabla{u}_{sigma}$ is strictly positive on one part of the domain $Omega$, (ii) $detabla{u}_{sigma}=0$ necessarily holds on the rest of $Omega$, and (iii) properties (i) and (ii) combine to ensure that $abla{u}_{sigma}$ is not continuous on the whole domain.

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