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A compatible-incompatible decomposition of symmetric tensors in Lp with application to elasticity

TitleA compatible-incompatible decomposition of symmetric tensors in Lp with application to elasticity
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2015
AuthorsMaggiani, GBattista, Scala, R, Van Goethem, N
JournalMathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
Volume38
Pagination5217-5230
Keywords35J58; 35Q74; compatibility conditions; elasticity; Korn inequality; strain decomposition; subclass74B05
Abstract

In this paper, we prove the Saint-Venant compatibility conditions in $L^p$ for $p\in(1,∞)$, in a simply connected domain of any space dimension. As a consequence, alternative, simple, and direct proofs of some classical Korn inequalities in Lp are provided. We also use the Helmholtz decomposition in $L^p$ to show that every symmetric tensor in a smooth domain can be decomposed in a compatible part, which is the symmetric part of a displacement gradient, and in an incompatible part, which is the incompatibility of a certain divergence-free tensor. Moreover, under a suitable Dirichlet boundary condition, this Beltrami-type decomposition is proved to be unique. This decomposition result has several applications, one of which being in dislocation models, where the incompatibility part is related to the dislocation density and where $1 < p < 2$. This justifies the need to generalize and prove these rather classical results in the Hilbertian case ($p = 2$), to the full range $p\in(1,∞)$. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

URLhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mma.3450
DOI10.1002/mma.3450

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