2022 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Necessary Conditions for Energy Minimizers in a Cosserat Model of Fiber-Reinforced Elastic Solids
Authors : Milad Shirani, David J. Steigmann
Published in: Recent Approaches in the Theory of Plates and Plate-Like Structures
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Pointwise necessary conditions for energy minimizers are derived in the context of a Cosserat model of fiber-reinforced elastic solids in which the Cosserat rotation field accounts for the kinematics of the embedded fibers, modelled as spatial Kirchho_ rods. The analysis requires careful consideration of constraints associated with the fact that fibers are convected by the continuum deformation field as material curves.