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The relaxation of the Signorini problem for polyconvex functionals with linear growth at infinity

Jarosław L. Bojarski (2005)

Applicationes Mathematicae

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The aim of this paper is to study the unilateral contact condition (Signorini problem) for polyconvex functionals with linear growth at infinity. We find the lower semicontinuous relaxation of the original functional (defined over a subset of the space of bounded variations BV(Ω)) and we prove the existence theorem. Moreover, we discuss the Winkler unilateral contact condition. As an application, we show a few examples of elastic-plastic potentials for finite displacements.

Variational Reduction for the Transport Equation in a Multiple Branching Plants Growth Model

S. Boujena, A. Chiboub, J. Pousin (2010)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

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Plant growth depends essentially on nutrients coming from the roots and metabolites produced by the plant. Appearance of new branches is determined by concentrations of certain plant hormones. The most important of them are Auxin and Cytokinin. Auxin is produced in the growing, Cytokinin in either roots or in growing parts. Many dynamical models of this phenomena have been studied in [1]. In [5], the authors deal with one branch model....

Conical differentiability for bone remodeling contact rod models

Isabel N. Figueiredo, Carlos F. Leal, Cecília S. Pinto (2010)

ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations

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We prove the conical differentiability of the solution to a bone remodeling contact rod model, for given data (applied loads and rigid obstacle), with respect to small perturbations of the cross section of the rod. The proof is based on the special structure of the model, composed of a variational inequality coupled with an ordinary differential equation with respect to time. This structure enables the verification of the two following fundamental results: the polyhedricity of a modified...

A General Linear Theory of Elastic Plates and its Variational Validation

Danilo Percivale, Paolo Podio-Guidugli (2009)

Bollettino dell'Unione Matematica Italiana

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We provide a variational justification for shearable-plate models that generalize the classic Reissner-Mindlin model. Firstly, we give an argument leading to choose a fairly general linearly elastic monoclinic material response. Secondly, we prove that, for materials in such constitutive class, the variational limit of certain suitably scaled 3D energies is a functional whose minimum over a maximal subspace of admissible functions coincides with the minimum of the generalized Reissner-Mindlin...

Growth induced buckling instability of anisotropic tube and its application in wound edge instability

Le Yang, Tarynn M. Witten, Ramana M. Pidaparti (2017)

Curved and Layered Structures

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Fiber reinforced anisotropic material abounds in biological world. It has been demonstrated in previous theoretical and experimental works that growth of biological soft tubular tissue plays a significant role in morphogenesis and pathology. Here we investigate growth-induced buckling of anisotropic cylindrical tissue, focusing on the effects of type of growth(constraint/unconstraint, isotropic/anisotropic), fiber property(orientation, density and strength), geometry and any interaction...

Transport Equation Reduction for a Mathematical Model in Plant Growth

S. Boujena, A. Chiboub, J. Pousin (2011)

Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena

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In this article a variational reduction method, how to handle the case of heterogenous domains for the Transport equation, is presented. This method allows to get rid of the restrictions on the size of time steps due to the thin parts of the domain. In the thin part of the domain, only a differential problem, with respect to the space variable, is to be approximated numerically. Numerical results are presented with a simple example. The ...