Mathematical Elasticity, Volume 2: Theory of Plates (Studies in Mathematics and its Application) - Hardcover

Phililppe G. Ciarlet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0444825703 ISBN 13: 9780444825704

Publisher: North Holland, 1997

Synopsis

The objective of Volume II is to show how asymptotic methods, with the thickness as the small parameter, indeed provide a powerful means of justifying two-dimensional plate theories. More specifically, without any recourse to any a priori assumptions of a geometrical or mechanical nature, it is shown that in the linear case, the three-dimensional displacements, once properly scaled, converge in H1 towards a limit that satisfies the well-known two-dimensional equations of the linear Kirchhoff-Love theory; the convergence of stress is also established.

In the nonlinear case, again after ad hoc scalings have been performed, it is shown that the leading term of a formal asymptotic expansion of the three-dimensional solution satisfies well-known two-dimensional equations, such as those of the nonlinear Kirchhoff-Love theory, or the von Kármán equations. Special attention is also given to the first convergence result obtained in this case, which leads to two-dimensional large deformation, frame-indifferent, nonlinear membrane theories. It is also demonstrated that asymptotic methods can likewise be used for justifying other lower-dimensional equations of elastic shallow shells, and the coupled pluri-dimensional equations of elastic multi-structures, i.e., structures with junctions. In each case, the existence, uniqueness or multiplicity, and regularity of solutions to the limit equations obtained in this fashion are also studied.

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...It is an important work describing the justification of two-dimentional engineering theories of plates and shallow shells and should be purchased by university libraries.
Applied Mechanics Reviews, Vol.51, No.6

Edition details

• Publisher: North Holland
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444825703
• ISBN 13: 9780444825704
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 497