Commutativity and non-commutativity of limits in the nonlinear bending theory for prestrained microheterogeneous plates
Klaus Boehnlein, Lucas Bouck, Stefan Neukamm, David Padilla-Garza, Kai Richter
Published: 2024/10/21
Abstract
In this paper we study the derivation of nonlinear bending models for prestrained elastic plates from three-dimensional non-linear elasticity via homogenization and dimension reduction. We compare effective models obtained by either simultaneously or consecutively passing to the $\Gamma$-limits as the thickness $h\ll1$ and the size of the material microstructure $\e\ll1$ vanish. In the regime $\e\ll h$ we show that the consecutive and simultaneous limit are equivalent, and also analyze the rate of convergence. In contrast, we observe that there are several different limit models in the case $h\ll \e$.