1. High contrast homogenisation in nonlinear elasticity under small loads.
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Cherdantsev, Mikhail, Cherednichenko, Kirill, and Neukamm, Stefan
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ELASTICITY , *ELASTODYNAMICS , *ELASTIC constants , *PROPERTIES of matter , *ASYMPTOTIC expansions - Abstract
We study the homogenisation of geometrically nonlinear elastic composites with high contrast. The composites we analyse consist of a perforated matrix material, which we call the "stiff" material, and a "soft" material that fills the remaining pores. We assume that the pores are of size 0 < ε << 1 and are periodically distributed with period ε. We also assume that the stiffness of the soft material degenerates with rate ε2γ,γ > 0, so that the contrast between the two materials becomes infinite as ε ↓ 0. We study the homogenisation limit ε ↓ 0 in a low energy regime, where the displacement of the stiff component is infinitesimally small. We derive an effective two-scale model, which, depending on the scaling of the energy, is either a quadratic functional or a partially quadratic functional that still allows for large strains in the soft inclusions. In the latter case, averaging out the small scale-term justifies a single-scale model for high-contrast materials, which features a non-linear and non-monotone effect describing a coupling between microscopic and the effective macroscopic displacements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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