Quasistatic delamination of sandwich-like Kirchhoff-Love plates

A quasistatic rate-independent adhesive delamination problem of laminated plates with a finite thickness is considered. By letting the thickness of the plates go to zero, a rate-independent delamination model for a laminated Kirchhoff-Love plate is obtained as limit of these quasistatic processes. The same dimension reduction procedure is eventually applied to processes which are sensitive to delamination modes, namely opening vs. shearing is distinguishe

An optimal control problem for a fourth-order variational inequality

An optimal control problem is considered where the state of the system is described by a variational inequality for the operator w → εΔ²w - φ(‖∇w‖²)Δw. A set of nonnegative functions φ is used as a control region. The problem is shown to have a solution for every fixed ε > 0. Moreover, the solvability of the limit optimal control problem corresponding to ε = 0 is proved. A compactness property of the solutions of the optimal control problems for ε > 0 and their relation with the limit problem are established. This type of operator arises in the theory of nonlinear plates, and the choice of a most suitable function φ is of interest for applications [2]. The problem of control of the function w has been studied in [4] for the operator under consideration, and some statements of this work will be used. Nonstationary problems with analogous operators were analyzed in [6,7]. Some general results on control of second-order variational inequalities can be found in [1]. The first section of this paper deals with the control problem for our fourth-order operator, the second considers a second-order operator, and the third studies the relationship between the solutions of the two problems

Shape-topological differentiability of energy functionals for unilateral problems in domains with cracks and applications

International audienceA review of results on first order shape-topological differentiability of energy functionals for a class of variational inequalities of elliptic type is presented.The velocity method in shape sensitivity analysis for solutions of elliptic unilateral problems is established in the monograph (Sokołowski and Zolésio, Introduction to Shape Optimization: Shape Sensitivity Analysis, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1992). The shape and material derivatives of solutions to frictionless contact problems in solid mechanics are obtained. In this way the shape gradients of the associated integral functionals are derived within the framework of nonsmooth analysis. In the case of the energy type functionals classical differentiability results can be obtained, because the shape differentiability of solutions is not required to obtain the shape gradient of the shape functional (Sokołowski and Zolésio, Introduction to Shape Optimization: Shape Sensitivity Analysis, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1992). Therefore, for cracks the strong continuity of solutions with respect to boundary variations is sufficient in order to obtain first order shape differentiability of the associated energy functional. This simple observation which is used in Sokołowski and Zolésio (Introduction to Shape Optimization: Shape Sensitivity Analysis, Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg/New York, 1992) for the shape differentiability of multiple eigenvalues is further applied in Khludnev and Sokołowski (Eur. J. Appl. Math. 10:379–394, 1999; Eur. J. Mech. A Solids 19:105–120, 2000) to derive the first order shape gradient of the energy functional with respect to perturbations of the crack tip. A domain decomposition technique in shape-topology sensitivity analysis for problems with unilateral constraints on the crack faces (lips) is presented for the shape functionals.We introduce the Griffith shape functional as the distributed shape derivative of the elastic energy evaluated in a domain with a crack, with respect to the crack length. We are interested in the dependence of this functional on domain perturbations far from the crack. As a result, the directional shape and topological derivatives of the nonsmooth Griffith shape functional are obtained with respect to boundary variations of an inclusion