Variational Analysis of the Coupling Between a Geometrically Exact Cosserat Rod and an Elastic Continuum
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- We formulate the static mechanical coupling of a geometrically exact Cosserat rod to a nonlinearly elastic continuum. In this setting, appropriate coupling conditions have to connect a one-dimensional model with director variables to a three-dimensional model without directors. Two alternative coupling conditions are proposed, which correspond to two different configuration trace spaces. For both we show existence of solutions of the coupled problems, using the direct method of the calculus of variations. From the first-order optimality conditions we also derive the corresponding conditions for the dual variables. These are then interpreted in mechanical terms.
Author: | Oliver Sander, Anton Schiela |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:0296-matheon-11695 |
Referee: | Ralf Kornhuber |
Document Type: | Preprint, Research Center Matheon |
Language: | English |
Date of first Publication: | 2012/09/28 |
Release Date: | 2012/09/28 |
Tag: | Cosserat rod; coupling conditions; energy minimization; hyperelastic material |
Institute: | Research Center Matheon |
Freie Universität Berlin | |
Technische Universität Berlin | |
Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) | |
MSC-Classification: | 49-XX CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS AND OPTIMAL CONTROL; OPTIMIZATION [See also 34H05, 34K35, 65Kxx, 90Cxx, 93-XX] / 49Kxx Optimality conditions / 49K20 Problems involving partial differential equations |
74-XX MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE SOLIDS / 74Bxx Elastic materials / 74B20 Nonlinear elasticity | |
74-XX MECHANICS OF DEFORMABLE SOLIDS / 74Kxx Thin bodies, structures / 74K10 Rods (beams, columns, shafts, arches, rings, etc.) | |
Preprint Number: | 984 |