New asymptotically sharp Korn and Korn-like inequalities in thin domains

It is well known that Korn inequality plays a central role in the theory of linear elasticity. In the present work we prove new asymptotically sharp Korn and Korn-like inequalities in thin curved domains with a non-constant thickness. This new results will be useful when studying the buckling of compressed shells, in particular when calculating the critical buckling load.Comment: 16 page

Quantitative anisotropic isoperimetric and Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for convex sets with improved defect estimates

In this paper we revisit the anisotropic isoperimetric and the Brunn-Minkowski inequalities for convex sets. The best known constant $C(n)=Cn^{7}$ depending on the space dimension $n$ in both inequalities is due to Segal [\ref{bib:Seg.}]. We improve that constant to $Cn^6$ for convex sets and to $Cn^5$ for centrally symmetric convex sets. We also conjecture, that the best constant in both inequalities must be of the form $Cn^2,$ i.e., quadratic in $n.$ The tools are the Brenier's mapping from the theory of mass transportation combined with new sharp geometric-arithmetic mean and some algebraic inequalities plus a trace estimate by Figalli, Maggi and Pratelli.Comment: Recently Emanuel Milman from Technion pointed out a mistake, where I missed an n^{1/2} on the right hand side of (3.18). The correction of the mistake leads to a reproduction of the already known (Legal [35]) constant Cn^

The asymptotically sharp Korn interpolation and second inequalities for shells

We consider shells in three dimensional Euclidean space which have bounded principal curvatures. We prove Korn's interpolation (or the so called first and a half\footnote{The inequality first introduced in [6]}) and second inequalities on that kind of shells for \Bu\in W^{1,2} vector fields, imposing no boundary or normalization conditions on \Bu. The constants in the estimates are optimal in terms of the asymptotics in the shell thickness $h,$ having the scalings $h$ or $O(1).$ The Korn interpolation inequality reduces the problem of deriving any linear Korn type estimate for shells to simply proving a Poincar\'e type estimate with the symmetrized gradient on the right hand side. In particular this applies to linear geometric rigidity estimates for shells, i.e., Korn's fist inequality without boundary conditions.Comment: 5, short note. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1709.0457

Gaussian curvature as an identifier of shell rigidity

In the paper we deal with shells with non-zero Gaussian curvature. We derive sharp Korn's first (linear geometric rigidity estimate) and second inequalities on that kind of shells for zero or periodic Dirichlet, Neumann, and Robin type boundary conditions. We prove that if the Gaussian curvature is positive, then the optimal constant in the first Korn inequality scales like $h,$ and if the Gaussian curvature is negative, then the Korn constant scales like $h^{4/3},$ where $h$ is the thickness of the shell. These results have classical flavour in continuum mechanics, in particular shell theory. The Korn first inequalities are the linear version of the famous geometric rigidity estimate by Friesecke, James and M\"uller for plates [14] (where they show that the Korn constant in the nonlinear Korn's first inequality scales like $h^2$), extended to shells with nonzero curvature. We also recover the uniform Korn-Poincar\'e inequality proven for "boundary-less" shells by Lewicka and M\"uller in [37] in the setting of our problem. The new estimates can also be applied to find the scaling law for the critical buckling load of the shell under in-plane loads as well as to derive energy scaling laws in the pre-buckled regime. The exponents $1$ and $4/3$ in the present work appear for the first time in any sharp geometric rigidity estimate.Comment: 25 page