148 research outputs found
Scaling laws for non-Euclidean plates and the isometric immersions of Riemannian metrics
This paper concerns the elastic structures which exhibit non-zero strain at
free equilibria. Many growing tissues (leaves, flowers or marine invertebrates)
attain complicated configurations during their free growth. Our study departs
from the 3d incompatible elasticity theory, conjectured to explain the
mechanism for the spontaneous formation of non-Euclidean metrics.
Recall that a smooth Riemannian metric on a simply connected domain can be
realized as the pull-back metric of an orientation preserving deformation if
and only if the associated Riemann curvature tensor vanishes identically. When
this condition fails, one seeks a deformation yielding the closest metric
realization. We set up a variational formulation of this problem by introducing
the non-Euclidean version of the nonlinear elasticity functional, and establish
its -convergence under the proper scaling. As a corollary, we obtain
new necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a isometric
immersion of a given 2d metric into .Comment: 18 pages, 1 figur
The infinite hierarchy of elastic shell models: some recent results and a conjecture
We summarize some recent results of the authors and their collaborators,
regarding the derivation of thin elastic shell models (for shells with
mid-surface of arbitrary geometry) from the variational theory of 3d nonlinear
elasticity. We also formulate a conjecture on the form and validity of
infinitely many limiting 2d models, each corresponding to its proper scaling
range of the body forces in terms of the shell thickness.Comment: 11 pages, 1 figur
Rigidity and regularity of co-dimension one Sobolev isometric immersions
We prove the developability and regularity of isometric
immersions of -dimensional domains into . As a conclusion we show
that any such Sobolev isometry can be approximated by smooth isometries in the
strong norm, provided the domain is and convex. Both results
fail to be true if the Sobolev regularity is weaker than .Comment: 43 pages, 15 figure
The von Karman equations for plates with residual strain
We provide a derivation of the Foppl-von Karman equations for the shape of
and stresses in an elastic plate with residual strains. These might arise from
a range of causes: inhomogeneous growth, plastic deformation, swelling or
shrinkage driven by solvent absorption. Our analysis gives rigorous bounds on
the convergence of the three dimensional equations of elasticity to the
low-dimensional description embodied in the plate-like description of laminae
and thus justifies a recent formulation of the problem to the shape of growing
leaves. It also formalizes a procedure that can be used to derive other
low-dimensional descriptions of active materials.Comment: 26 page
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