arXiv · 1811.12049
Global injectivity in second-gradient Nonlinear Elasticity and its approximation with penalty terms
Abstract
We present a new penalty term approximating the Ciarlet-Ne\v{c}as condition (global invertibility of deformations) as a soft constraint for hyperelastic materials. For non-simple materials including a suitable higher order term in the elastic energy, we prove that the penalized functionals converge to the original functional subject to the Ciarlet-Ne\v{c}as condition. Moreover, the penalization can be chosen in such a way that all low energy deformations, self-interpenetration is completely avoided even for sufficiently small finite values of the penalization parameter. We also present numerical experiments in 2d illustrating our theoretical results.
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Stefan Krömer, Jan Valdman. 2018-11-29. Global injectivity in second-gradient Nonlinear Elasticity and its approximation with penalty terms. https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.12049
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