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Rank one plus a null-Lagrangian is an inherited property of two-dimensional compliance tensors under homogenisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

Yury Grabovsky  and
Graeme W. Milton
Yury Grabovsky
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, U.S.A.
Graeme W. Milton
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84102, U.S.A.
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Abstract

Assume that the local compliance tensor of an elastic composite in two space dimensions is equal to a rank-one tensor plus a null-Lagrangian (there is only one symmetric one in two dimensions). The purpose of this paper is to prove that the effective compliance tensor has the same representation: rank-one plus the null-Lagrangian. This statement generalises the wellknown result of Hill that a composite of isotropic phases with a common shear modulus is necessarily elastically isotropic and shares the same shear modulus. It also generalises the surprising discovery of Avellaneda et al. that under a certain condition on the pure crystal moduli the shear modulus of an isotropic polycrystal is uniquely determined. The present paper sheds light on this effect by placing it in a more general framework and using some elliptic PDE theory rather than the translation method. Our results allow us to calculate the polycrystalline G-closure of the special class of crystals under consideration. Our analysis is contrasted with a two-dimensional model problem for shape-memory polycrystals. We show that the two problems can be thought of as ‘elastic percolation’ problems, one elliptic, one hyperbolic.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh Section A: Mathematics , Volume 128 , Issue 2 , 1998 , pp. 283 - 299
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1998

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