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Junction in a thin multi-domain for nonsimple grade two materials in BH

Analysis of PDEs 2025-04-15 v2 Functional Analysis

Abstract

We consider a thin multi-domain of RN\mathbb R^N, with N2N\geq 2, consisting of a vertical rod upon a horizontal disk. In this thin multi-domain, we introduce a bulk energy density of the kind W(D2U)W(D^2U), where WW is a continuous function with linear growth at \infty and D2UD^2U denotes the Hessian tensor of a vector-valued function UU that represents a deformation of the multi-domain. Considering suitable boundary conditions on the admissible deformations and assuming that the two volumes tend to zero with same rate, we prove that the limit model is well posed in the union of the limit domains, with dimensions 11 and N1N-1, respectively. Moreover, we show that the limit problem is uncoupled if N3N\geq 3, and ``partially" coupled if N=2N=2.

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@article{arxiv.2402.16633,
  title  = {Junction in a thin multi-domain for nonsimple grade two materials in BH},
  author = {Rita Ferreira and José Matias and Elvira Zappale},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.16633},
  year   = {2025}
}
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