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A direct linear inversion for discontinuous elastic parameters recovery from internal displacement information only

Analysis of PDEs 2018-06-11 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present and analyze a new direct method for solving the linear elasticity inverse problem. Given measurements of some displacement fields inside a medium, we show that a stable reconstruction of elastic parameters is possible, even for discontinuous parameters and without boundary information. We provide a general approach based on the weak definition of the stiffness-to-force operator which conduces to see the problem as a linear system. We prove that in the case of shear modulus reconstruction, we have an L2L^2-stability with only one measurement under minimal smoothness assumptions. This stability result is obtained though the proof that the linear operator to invert has closed range. We then describe a direct discretization which provides stable reconstructions of both isotropic and anisotropic stiffness tensors.

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@article{arxiv.1806.03147,
  title  = {A direct linear inversion for discontinuous elastic parameters recovery from internal displacement information only},
  author = {Habib Ammari and Elie Bretin and Pierre Millien and Laurent Seppecher},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1806.03147},
  year   = {2018}
}
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