On the hierarchy of plate models for a singularly perturbed multi-well nonlinear elastic energy

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contents In the celebrated work of Friesecke, James and Müller '06 the authors derive a hierarchy of models for plates by carefully analyzing the $Γ$-convergence of the rescaled nonlinear elastic energy. The key ingredient of their proofs is the rigidity estimate proved in an earlier work of theirs. Here we consider the case in which the elastic energy has a multi-well structure: this type of functional arises, for example, in the study of solid-solid phase transitions. Since the rigidity estimate fails in the case of compatible wells, we follow Alicandro, Dal Maso, Lazzaroni and Palombaro '18 and add a regularization term to the energy that penalizes jumps from one well to another, leading to good compactness properties. In this setting we recover the full hierarchy of plate models with an explicit dependence on the wells. Finally, we study the convergence of energy minimizers with suitable external forces and full Neumann boundary conditions. To do so, we adapt the definition of optimal rotations introduced by Maor, Mora '21.
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spellingShingle On the hierarchy of plate models for a singularly perturbed multi-well nonlinear elastic energy
Tolotti, Edoardo Giovanni
Analysis of PDEs
74K20, 74B20, 74G65, 49J45
In the celebrated work of Friesecke, James and Müller '06 the authors derive a hierarchy of models for plates by carefully analyzing the $Γ$-convergence of the rescaled nonlinear elastic energy. The key ingredient of their proofs is the rigidity estimate proved in an earlier work of theirs. Here we consider the case in which the elastic energy has a multi-well structure: this type of functional arises, for example, in the study of solid-solid phase transitions. Since the rigidity estimate fails in the case of compatible wells, we follow Alicandro, Dal Maso, Lazzaroni and Palombaro '18 and add a regularization term to the energy that penalizes jumps from one well to another, leading to good compactness properties. In this setting we recover the full hierarchy of plate models with an explicit dependence on the wells. Finally, we study the convergence of energy minimizers with suitable external forces and full Neumann boundary conditions. To do so, we adapt the definition of optimal rotations introduced by Maor, Mora '21.
title On the hierarchy of plate models for a singularly perturbed multi-well nonlinear elastic energy
topic Analysis of PDEs
74K20, 74B20, 74G65, 49J45
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11443