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Semicontinuity theorem in the micropolar elasticity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2009

Josip Tambača  and
Igor Velčić
Josip Tambača
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Bijenička 30, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. tambaca@math.hr; ivelcic@math.hr
Igor Velčić
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb, Bijenička 30, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia. tambaca@math.hr; ivelcic@math.hr
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Abstract

In this paper we investigate the equivalence of the sequential weak lower semicontinuity of the total energy functional and the quasiconvexity of the stored energy function of the nonlinear micropolar elasticity. Based on techniques of Acerbi and Fusco [Arch. Rational Mech. Anal.86 (1984) 125–145] we extend the result from Tambača and Velčić [ESAIM: COCV (2008) DOI: 10.1051/cocv:2008065] for energies that satisfy the growth of order p≥ 1. This result is the main step towards the general existence theorem for the nonlinear micropolar elasticity.

Keywords

Micropolar elasticityexistence theoremquasiconvexitysemicontinuity
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 337 - 355
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2009

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