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On a boundary value problem for conically deformed thin elastic sheets

Analysis of PDEs 2018-08-15 v2

Abstract

We consider a thin elastic sheet in the shape of a disk that is clamped at its boundary such that the displacement and the deformation gradient coincide with a conical deformation with no stretching there. We define the free elastic energy as a variation of the von K\'arm\'an energy, that penalizes bending energy in LpL^p with p(2,83)p\in (2,\frac83) (instead of, as usual, p=2p=2). We prove ansatz free upper and lower bounds for the elastic energy that scale like hp/(p1)h^{p/(p-1)}, where hh is the thickness of the sheet.

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@article{arxiv.1710.01707,
  title  = {On a boundary value problem for conically deformed thin elastic sheets},
  author = {Heiner Olbermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.01707},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages; version 2: minor changes, acknowledgments added

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