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Main Authors: Barroso, Ana Cristina, Matias, José, Morandotti, Marco, Owen, David R., Zappale, Elvira
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08984
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author Barroso, Ana Cristina
Matias, José
Morandotti, Marco
Owen, David R.
Zappale, Elvira
author_facet Barroso, Ana Cristina
Matias, José
Morandotti, Marco
Owen, David R.
Zappale, Elvira
contents The response of many materials to applied forces and boundary constraints depends upon internal geometric changes at multiple submacroscopic levels. Hierarchical structured deformations provide a mathematical setting for the description of such changes and for the variational determination of the corresponding energetic response. The research in this article provides substantial refinements and broadenings of the mathematical setting both for the underlying geometrical structure and for the variational analysis of energetic response. The mathematical tools employed in this research include the global method for relaxation and establish the equivalence of a relaxed energy obtained via relaxation under simultaneous geometrical changes at all levels and a relaxed energy obtained via iterated relaxations proceeding from the deepest submacroscopic level successively to the macroscopic level.
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spellingShingle A Comprehensive Approach via Global Relaxation to the Variational Modelling of Hierarchical Structured Deformations
Barroso, Ana Cristina
Matias, José
Morandotti, Marco
Owen, David R.
Zappale, Elvira
Classical Analysis and ODEs
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
The response of many materials to applied forces and boundary constraints depends upon internal geometric changes at multiple submacroscopic levels. Hierarchical structured deformations provide a mathematical setting for the description of such changes and for the variational determination of the corresponding energetic response. The research in this article provides substantial refinements and broadenings of the mathematical setting both for the underlying geometrical structure and for the variational analysis of energetic response. The mathematical tools employed in this research include the global method for relaxation and establish the equivalence of a relaxed energy obtained via relaxation under simultaneous geometrical changes at all levels and a relaxed energy obtained via iterated relaxations proceeding from the deepest submacroscopic level successively to the macroscopic level.
title A Comprehensive Approach via Global Relaxation to the Variational Modelling of Hierarchical Structured Deformations
topic Classical Analysis and ODEs
Mathematical Physics
Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08984