Noncoercive Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity with Stored Energies Having Fast or Slow Growth: Orlicz–Sobolev Space Setting.

This paper is concerned with a noncoercive unilateral problem in nonlinear elasticity with stored energy function having fast or slow growth. We prove an existence result for the associated minimization problem by using a recession approach in Orlicz-Sobolev space. Key Words. Nonlinear elasticity; Orlicz-Sobolev space; recession function, property (P). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]