Modeling of smart materials with thermal effects: dynamic and quasi-static evolution

International audienceWe present a mathematical model for linear magneto-electro-thermo-elastic continua, as sensors and actuators can be thought of, and prove the well-posedness of the dynamic and quasi-static problems. The two proofs are accomplished, respectively, by means of the Hille-Yosida theory and of the Faedo-Galerkin method. A validation of the quasi-static hypothesis is provided by a nondimensionalization of the dynamic problem equations. We also hint at the study of the convergence of the solution to the dynamic problem to that to the quasi-static problem as a small parameter – the ratio of the largest propagation speed for an elastic wave in the body to the speed of light – tends to zero

An asymptotic strain gradient Reissner-Mindlin plate model

In this paper we derive a strain gradient plate model from the three-dimensional equations of strain gradient linearized elasticity. The deduction is based on the asymptotic analysis with respect of a small real parameter being the thickness of the elastic body we consider. The body is constituted by a second gradient isotropic linearly elastic material. The obtained model is recognized as a strain gradient Reissner-Mindlin plate model. We also provide a mathematical justification of the obtained plate model by means of a variational weak convergence result

A new duality approach to elasticity

International audienceThe displacement-traction problem of three-dimensional linearized elasticity can be posed as three different minimization problems, depending on whether the displacement vector field, or the stress tensor field, or the strain tensor field, is the unknown. The objective of this paper is to put these three different formulations of the same problem in a new perspective, by means of Legendre-Fenchel duality theory. More specifically, we show that both the displacement and strain formulations can be viewed as Legendre-Fenchel dual problems to the stress formulation. We also show that each corresponding Lagrangian has a saddle-point, thus fully justifying this new duality approach to elasticity

Nonlinear Donati compatibility conditions for the nonlinear Kirchhoff -von K arm an-Love plate theory

International audienceLinear Donati compatibility conditions guarantee that the components of symmetric tensor fields are those of linearized change of metric or linearized change of curvature tensor fields associated with the displacement vector field arising in a linearly elastic structure when it is subjected to applied forces. These compatibility conditions take the form of variational equations with divergence-free tensor fields as test-functions, by contrast with Saint-Venant compatibility conditions, which take the form of systems of partial differential equations. In this paper, we identify and justify nonlinear Donati compatibility conditions that apply to a nonlinearly elastic plate modeled by the Kirchhoff-von K'arm'an-Love theory

Nonlinear Donati compatibility conditions and the intrinsic approach for nonlinearly elastic plates

Linear Donati compatibility conditions guarantee that the components of symmetric tensor fields are those of linearized change of metric or linearized change of curvature tensor fields associated with the displacement vector field arising in a linearly elastic structure when it is subjected to applied forces. These compatibility conditions take the form of variational equations with divergence-free tensor fields as test-functions, by contrast with Saint-Venant compatibility conditions, which take the form of systems of partial differential equations. In this paper, we identify and justify nonlinear Donati compatibility conditions that apply to a nonlinearly elastic plate modeled by the Kirchhoff-von K'arm'an-Love theory. These conditions, which to the authors' best knowledge constitute a first example of nonlinear Donati compatibility conditions, in turn allow to recast the classical approach to this nonlinear plate theory, where the unknown is the position of the deformed middle surface of the plate, into the intrinsic approach, where the change of metric and change of curvature tensor fields of the deformed middle surface of the plate are the only unknowns. The intrinsic approach thus provides a direct way to compute the stress resultants and the stress couples inside the deformed plate, often the unknowns of major interest in computational mechanics

Matched asymptotic expansion method for an homogenized interface model

International audienceOur aim is to demonstrate the effectiveness of the matched asymptotic expansion method in obtaining a simpli ed model for the influence of small identical heterogeneities periodically distributed on an internal surface on the overall response of a linearly elastic body. The results of some numerical experiments corroborate the precise identi cation of the di fferent steps, in particular of the outer/inner regions with their normalized coordinate systems and the scale separation, leading to the model

Numerical validation of an Homogenized Interface Model

International audienceThe aim of this paper is to numerically validate the effectiveness of a matched asymptotic expansion formal method introduced in a pioneering paper by Nguetseng and Sànchez Palencia [1] and extended in [2], [3]. Using this method a simplified model for the influence of small identical heterogeneities periodically distributed on an internal surface to the overall response of a linearly elastic body is derived. In order to validate this formal method a careful numerical study compares the solution obtained by a standard method on a fine mesh to the one obtained by asymptotic expansion. We compute both the zero and the first order terms in the expansion. To efficiently compute the first order term we introduce a suitable domain decomposition method