PDE Real Analysis Seminar

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Date, time & place Tuesday 10:30 - 11:30 056Room #056 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)

2013/03/15

10:30-11:30   Room #128 (Graduate School of Math. Sci. Bldg.)
Caterina Zeppieri (Universität Münster)
Geometric rigidity for incompatible fields and an application to strain-gradient plasticity (ENGLISH)
[ Abstract ]
Motivated by the study of nonlinear plane elasticity in presence of edge dislocations, in this talk we show that in dimension two the Friesecke, James, and Müller Rigidity Estimate holds true also for matrix-fields with nonzero curl, modulo an error depending on the total mass of the curl.
The above generalised rigidity is then used to derive a strain-gradient model for plasticity from semi-discrete nonlinear dislocation energies by Gamma-convergence.
The above results are obtained in collaboration with S. Müller (University of Bonn, Germany) and L. Scardia (University of Glasgow, UK).