Nonlinear thin-walled beams with a rectangular cross-section - Part I

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Journal: Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences (M3AS)
Volume: 22
Number: 1150016
Pages: 34
Year: 2012

Abstract:

Our aim is to rigorously derive a hierarchy of one-dimensional models for thin-walled beams with a rectangular cross-section, starting from three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity. The different limit models are distinguished by the different scaling of the elastic energy and of the ratio between the sides of the cross-section. In this paper we report the first part of our results. More precisely, denoting by $h$ and $\delta_h$ the length of the sides of the cross section and by $\varepsilon_h$ the scaling factor of the bulk elastic energy, we analyse the cases in which $\delta_h/\varepsilon_h\to0$ (subcritical) and $\delta_h/\varepsilon_h\to1$ (critical).