| Title | Gamma-convergence of energies for nematic elastomers in the small strain limit |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Agostiniani, V, DeSimone, A |
| Journal | Continuum. Mech. Therm. |
| Volume | 23 |
| Start Page | 257 |
| Keywords | Liquid crystals |
| Abstract | We study two variational models recently proposed in the literature to describe the mechanical behaviour of nematic elastomers either in the fully nonlinear regime or in the framework of a geometrically linear theory. We show that, in the small strain limit, the energy functional of the first one I\\\"-converges to the relaxation of the second one, a functional for which an explicit representation formula is available. |
| URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4141 |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00161-011-0180-2 |
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