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59/2004

Scaling of the energy for thin martensitic films

Nirmalendu Chaudhuri and Stefan Müller

Abstract

We study the scaling behaviour of thin martensitic films. Specifically we consider an elastic energy with two SO(3) invariant wells which are strongly incompatible in the sense of Matos and Šverák, but whose two-dimensional projections are compatible. We show that in a thin film of thickness the energy per unit height scales like $h$. This scaling lies in between the classical membrane theory (where the energy per unit height is of order 1) and the Kirchhoff bending theory, which corresponds to a scaling of $h^2$.

Received:
Sep 20, 2004
Published:
Sep 20, 2004
MSC Codes:
74K20, 74N10, 74B20
Keywords:
martensitic films, phase transformation

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2006 Repository Open Access
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Scaling of the energy for thin martensitic films

In: SIAM journal on mathematical analysis, 38 (2006) 2, pp. 468-477