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We study wrinkling patterns in a thin elastic annulus subjected to radial stretching within the framework of the F\"oppl--von K\'arm\'an theory. Building on the analysis of the Lam\'e problem in Bella and Kohn, we investigate the asymptotic…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Roberta Marziani

In this work, we study the effective behavior of a two-dimensional variational model within finite crystal plasticity for high-contrast bilayered composites. Precisely, we consider materials arranged into periodically alternating thin…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-02-01 Elisa Davoli , Rita Ferreira , Carolin Kreisbeck

This paper deals with the homogenization through $\Gamma$-convergence of weakly coercive integral energies with the oscillating density $\mathbb{L}(x/\epsilon)\nabla v : \nabla v$ in three-dimensional elasticity. The energies are weakly…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-09-16 Marc Briane , Antonio Pallares-Martín

This paper is an extension of the result by Christowiak and Kreisbeck (2017), which addresses the Gamma-convergence approach to a homogenization problem for composite materials consisting of two distinct types of parallel layers. In…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Akira Ishikawa , Karel Svadlenka

We prove a homogenization theorem for a class of quadratic convolution energies with random coefficients. Under suitably stated hypotheses of ergodicity and stationarity we prove that the $\Gamma$-limit of such energy is almost surely a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2021-01-20 Andrea Braides , Andrey Piatnitski

We study the effective behavior of heterogeneous energies arising in the modeling of material voids in geometrically linear elastic materials. Specifically, we consider functionals featuring bulk terms depending on the symmetrized gradient…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Stefano Almi , Antonio Flavio Donnarumma , Manuel Friedrich

We obtain a compactness result for $\Gamma$-convergence of integral functionals defined on $\mathcal{A}$-free vector fields. This is used to study homogenization problems for these functionals without periodicity assumptions. More…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Gianni Dal Maso , Rita Ferreira , Irene Fonseca

We characterize the asymptotic behaviour, in the sense of $\Gamma$-convergence, of a thin magnetoelastic shallow shell. The compactness is achieved up to rigid motions. For deformations, it relies on an approximation by rigid movements,…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-08-20 Emanuele Tasso , Tobias Unterberger

We show that the linear brittle Griffith energy on a thin rectangle $\Gamma$-converges after rescaling to the linear one-dimensional brittle Euler-Bernoulli beam energy. In contrast to the existing literature, we prove a corresponding sharp…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Peter Gladbach , Janusz Ginster

We provide a rigorous justification of the classical linearization approach in plasticity. By taking the small-deformations limit, we prove via \Gamma-convergence for rate-independent processes that energetic solutions of the quasi-static…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-11-07 Alexander Mielke , Ulisse Stefanelli

Upper bound limit analysis allows one to evaluate directly the ultimate load of structures without performing a cumbersome incremental analysis. In order to numerically apply this method to thin plates in bending, several authors have…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-02 Jérémy Bleyer , Guillaume Carlier , Vincent Duval , Jean-Marie Mirebeau , Gabriel Peyré

We consider the problem of the homogenization of non-local quadratic energies defined on $\delta$-periodic disconnected sets defined by a double integral, depending on a kernel concentrated at scale $\varepsilon$. For kernels with unbounded…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-05-17 Andrea Braides , Sergio Scalabrino , Chiara Trifone

We study the discrete-to-continuum limit of ferromagnetic spin systems when the lattice spacing tends to zero. We assume that the atoms are part of a (maybe) non-periodic lattice close to a flat set in a lower dimensional space, typically a…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-03-16 Andrea Braides , Marco Cicalese , Matthias Ruf

In this paper, we introduce a nonlocal, variational model for thin films. We consider convolution-type functionals defined on a thin domain whose thickness is of order $\gamma$, where the effective interactions range between points is of…

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We study partially segregated elliptic systems through the use of penalized energy functionals. These systems arise from the minimization of Gross-Pitaevskii-type energies that capture the behavior of multi-component ultracold gas mixtures…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Farid Bozorgnia , Avetik Arakelyan

The asymptotic behaviour of the equilibrium configurations of a thin elastic plate is studied, as the thickness $h$ of the plate goes to zero. More precisely, it is shown that critical points of the nonlinear elastic functional $\mathcal…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-01-27 Maria Giovanna Mora , Lucia Scardia

Using the notion of Gamma-convergence, we discuss the limiting behavior of the 3d nonlinear elastic energy for thin elliptic shells, as their thickness h converges to zero, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2008-11-17 Marta Lewicka , Maria Giovanna Mora , Mohammad Reza Pakzad

A new energy functional for pure traction problems in elasticity has been deduced in [23] as the variational limit of nonlinear elastic energy functional for a material body subject to an equilibrated force field: a sort of Gamma limit with…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Francesco Maddalena , Danilo Percivale , Franco Tomarelli

We determine the effective behavior of a class of composites in finite-strain crystal plasticity, based on a variational model for materials made of fine parallel layers of two types. While one component is completely rigid in the sense…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-04-13 Fabian Christowiak , Carolin Kreisbeck