Accepted Paper

Inserted: 13 mar 2024
Last Updated: 6 aug 2024

Journal: M3AS
Year: 2024

Abstract:

We investigate a model for the accretive growth of an elastic solid. The reference configuration of the body is accreted in its normal direction, with space- and deformation- dependent accretion rate. The time-dependent reference configuration is identified via the level sets of the unique viscosity solution of a suitable generalized eikonal equation. After proving the global-in-time well-posedness of the quasistatic equilibrium under prescribed growth, we prove the existence of a local-in-time solution for the coupled equilibrium-growth problem, where both mechanical displacement and time-evolving set are unknown. A distinctive challenge is the limited regularity of the growing body, which calls for proving a new uniform Korn inequality.

Keywords: existence, viscosity solution, quasistatic evolution, Accretive growth, Elastic solids, Variational formulation

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