We study thin films with residual strain by analyzing the $Γ-$limit of non-Euclidean elastic energy functionals as the material's thickness tends to $0.$ We begin by extending prior results \cite{bhattacharya2016plates} \cite{agostiniani2018heterogeneous} \cite{lewicka2018dimension} \cite{schmidt2007plate}, to a wider class of films, whose prestrain depends on both the midplate and the transversal variables. The ansatz for our $Γ-$convergence result uses a specific type of wrinkling, which is built on exotic solutions to the Monge-Ampere equation, constructed via convex integration \cite{lewicka2017convex}. We show that the expression for our $Γ-$limit has a natural interpretation in terms of the orthogonal projection of the residual strain onto a suitable subspace. We also show that some type of wrinkling phenomenon is necessary to match the lower bound of the $Γ-$limit in certain circumstances. These results all assume a prestrain of the same order as the thickness; we also discuss why it is natural to focus on that regime by considering what can happen when the prestrain is larger.
We are concerned with the dimension reduction analysis for thin three-dimensional elastic films, prestrained via Riemannian metrics with weak curvatures. For the prestrain inducing the incompatible version of the Föppl-von Kármán equations, we find the $Γ$-limits of the rescaled energies, identify the optimal energy scaling laws, and display the equivalent conditions for optimality in terms of both the prestrain components and the curvatures of the related Riemannian metrics. When the stretching-inducing prestrain carries no in-plane modes, we discover similarities with the previously describe…
The article addresses the mathematical modeling of the folding of a thin elastic sheet along a prescribed curved arc. A rigorous model reduction from a general hyperelastic material description is carried out under appropriate scaling conditions on the energy and the geometric properties of the folding arc in dependence on the small sheet thickness. The resulting two-dimensional model is a piecewise nonlinear Kirchhoff plate bending model with a continuity condition at the folding arc. A discontinuous Galerkin method and an iterative scheme are devised for the accurate numerical approximation …