Relaxation of some transversally isotropic energies and applications to smectic a elastomers

Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 1-20

  Adams, James ^a   Conti, Sergio ^b   Desimone, Antonio ^c   Dolzmann, Georg ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c SISSA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformable solids; Liquid crystal elastomers; Quasiconvexity; Relaxation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ELASTOMERS; SMECTIC LIQUID CRYSTALS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DEFORMABLE SOLIDS; ISOTROPIC ENERGY DENSITIES; LIQUID CRYSTAL ELASTOMERS; QUASICONVEXITY;

RELAXATION PROCESSES;

EID: 44049102420     PISSN: 02182025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218202508002693     Document Type: Article

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