Existence of minimizers and microstructure in nonlinear elasticity

Nonlinear Analysis, Theory, Methods and Applications

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 297-308

  Li, Zhiping ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Convergence; Existence; Microstructure; Minimizer; Minimizing sequence; Nonlinear elasticity

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; DYNAMICS; ELASTICITY; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FUNCTIONS; MICROSTRUCTURE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

BALL EXISTENCE THEORY; CARATHEODORY FUNCTION; IMPLICIT FUNCTION THEOREM; LIPSCHITZ CONTINUOUS BOUNDARY; MINIMIZER; MINIMIZING SEQUENCE; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY; POLYCONVEXITY CONDITIONS; STORED ENERGY FUNCTIONS;

NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030211432     PISSN: 0362546X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0362-546X(95)00070-C     Document Type: Article

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