Rotational elasticity

DOI10.1093/QJMAM/HBR011MaRDI QIDQ3166621zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert J. Downes, Dmitri Vassiliev, Christian G. Böhmer

Publication date 12 October 2012

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

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1008.3833

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polar materials (74A35) Elastic materials (74B99)

Abstract: We consider an infinite 3-dimensional elastic continuum whose material points experience no displacements, only rotations. This framework is a special case of the Cosserat theory of elasticity. Rotations of material points are described mathematically by attaching to each geometric point an orthonormal basis which gives a field of orthonormal bases called the coframe. As the dynamical variables (unknowns) of our theory we choose the coframe and a density. We write down the general dynamic variational functional for our rotational theory of elasticity, assuming our material to be physically linear but the kinematic model geometrically nonlinear. Allowing geometric nonlinearity is natural when dealing with rotations because rotations in dimension 3 are inherently nonlinear (rotations about different axes do not commute) and because there is no reason to exclude from our study large rotations such as full turns. The main result of the paper is an explicit construction of a class of time-dependent solutions which we call plane wave solutions; these are travelling waves of rotations. The existence of such explicit closed form solutions is a nontrivial fact given that our system of Euler-Lagrange equations is highly nonlinear. In the last section we consider a special case of our rotational theory of elasticity which in the stationary setting (harmonic time dependence and arbitrary dependence on spatial coordinates) turns out to be equivalent to a pair of massless Dirac equations.

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