Some Remarks on the Morphology of Non-Unique Solutions in Nonlinear Elastostatics

Author(s):  
Franz Karl Labisch
Author(s):  
J. M. Ball

In this paper we investigate the connection between strong ellipticity and the regularity of weak solutions to the equations of nonlinear elastostatics and other nonlinear systems arising from the calculus of variations. The main mathematical tool is a new characterization of continuously differentiable strictly convex functions. We first describe this characterization, and then explain how it can be applied to the calculus of variations and to elastostatics.


1991 ◽  
Vol 119 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 373-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. J. Chillingworth

SynopsisThe Signorini perturbation scheme is a series expansion algorithm that locates solution branches for a class of symmetry-breaking bifurcation problems in nonlinear elastostatics. The relationship of the formal steps in the algorithm to geometric aspects of the problem is brought out in work of J. E. Marsden and Y.-H. Wan, where an abstract formulation is also considered. In this paper, the abstract algorithm and its geometry are explored further: the logical structure is clarified, and it is shown how the scheme adapts to the presence of additional symmetry constraints.


1989 ◽  
Vol 105 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Healey

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