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Attainment results for nematic elastomers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 July 2015

Virginia Agostiniani
Affiliation:
OxPDE – Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK, (virginia.agostiniani@maths.ox.ac.uk)
Gianni Dal Maso
Affiliation:
SISSA, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy, (dalmaso@sissa.it; desimone@sissa.it)
Antonio DeSimone
Affiliation:
SISSA, via Bonomea 265, 34136 Trieste, Italy, (dalmaso@sissa.it; desimone@sissa.it)

Abstract

We consider a class of non-quasi-convex frame indifferent energy densities that includes Ogden-type energy densities for nematic elastomers. For the corresponding geometrically linear problem, we provide an explicit minimizer of the energy functional satisfying a non-trivial boundary condition. Other attainment results, both for the nonlinear and the linearised model, are obtained by using the theory of convex integration introduced by Müller and Šverák in the context of crystalline solids.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 2015 

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