On weighted rigidity estimates for bulk and thin domains

Abstract

This work is concerned with weighted Geometric Rigidity Estimates and Korn's first inequalities in bulk and thin domains. We consider weights, that are a nonnegative power of the distance function to part of the boundary of the domain. For the case of thin domains, the distance is taken to be from the thin face of the domain boundary, and the constants depend on the domain thickness and when the mid-surface contains a flat region, the constants are proven to have optimal scaling as the thickness approaches zero. We employed some covering techniques utilized by Acosta, Cejas, and Duran in [\ref{bib:Aco.Cej.Dur.}] to prove a weighted Poincar\'e inequality, and later by Conti and Zwicknagl in [\ref{bib:Con.Zwi.}] to prove weighted Poincar\'e and classical Geometric Rigidity inequalities in Lipschitz domains. However, because the distance is taken to be only from part of the boundary, the covering parts become more delicate, especially for thin domains and the analysis becomes non-straightforward.