Activity: Talk/lecture or presentation › Talk/lecture
Description
In elastostatics, the problem of finding the deformation of a nonlinearly elastic body subjected to external forces reduces to solving either a non-convex minimisation problem, or a boundary value problem associated with a fully nonlinear elliptic system of partial differential equations. I will give an overview of the existence theory for this problem in three-dimensional elasticity, then I will discuss recent existence results for the corresponding problem in two-dimensional nonlinear shell theory.