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A Blake-Zisserman-Kirchhoff theory for plates with soft inclusions

Analysis of PDEs 2022-05-25 v2 Materials Science Classical Analysis and ODEs

Abstract

We consider a two phase elastic thin film with soft inclusions subject to bending dominated deformations. The soft (void) phase may comprise asymptotically small droplets within the elastic matrix. We perform a dimension reduction analysis and obtain a novel `Blake-Zisserman-Kirchhoff' model that combines Kirchhoff's classical plate theory with Blake-Zisserman type surface energy contributions at cracks, folds and the boundary of voids.

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@article{arxiv.2205.04512,
  title  = {A Blake-Zisserman-Kirchhoff theory for plates with soft inclusions},
  author = {Mario Santilli and Bernd Schmidt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.04512},
  year   = {2022}
}