Stefan Neukamm, Heiner Olbermann
Published 2013-05-29, updated 2014-05-15Version 3
We carry out the spatially periodic homogenization of nonlinear bending theory for plates. The derivation is rigorous in the sense of Gamma-convergence. In contrast to what one naturally would expect, our result shows that the limiting functional is not simply a quadratic functional of the second fundamental form of the deformed plate as it is the case in nonlinear plate theory. It turns out that the limiting functional discriminates between whether the deformed plate is locally shaped like a "cylinder" or not. For the derivation we investigate the oscillatory behavior of sequences of second fundamental forms associated with isometric immersions, using two-scale convergence. This is a non-trivial task, since one has to treat two-scale convergence in connection with a nonlinear differential constraint.
Comments: 36 pages, 4 figures. Major revisions of Sections 2,3 and 4. In Section 2: Correction of definition of conical and cylindrical part (Definition 1). In Section 3: Modifications in the proof of Proposition 2 due to changes in Definition 1. Several new lemmas and other modifications. In Section 4: Modification of proof of lower bound. Proof of upper bound completely revised. Several lemmas added
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