Legendre-Fenchel duality in elasticity [Dualité de Legendre-Fenchel en élasticité]

Philippe G. Ciarlet, Giuseppe Geymonat, Françoise Krasucki

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Abstract

We show that the displacement and strain formulations of the displacement-traction problem of three-dimensional linearized elasticity can be viewed as Legendre-Fenchel dual problems to the stress formulation of the same problem. We also show that each corresponding Lagrangian has a saddle-point, thus fully justifying this new approach to elasticity by means of Legendre-Fenchel duality.
Original languageFrench
Pages (from-to)597-602
JournalComptes Rendus Mathematique
Volume349
Issue number9-10
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2011

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