Workshop
Plasticity as a limit for a chain with viscous, stochastic, bistable springs
- Alexander Mielke (WIAS, Berlin, Germany)
Abstract
Mechanical systems with so-called wiggly energies have many local equilibria. Under slow external forcing a gradient system with such an energy may display rate-independent behavior. In this talk we discuss the mathematical justification of this limit. This is joint work with Lev Truskinovsky.