Recovery of a displacement field from its linearized strain tensor field in curvilinear coordinates

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)535-540
Journal / PublicationComptes Rendus Mathematique
Volume344
Issue number8
Publication statusPublished - 15 Apr 2007

Abstract

We establish that, if a symmetric matrix field defined over a simply-connected open set satisfies the Saint Venant equations in curvilinear coordinates, then its coefficients are the linearized strains associated with a displacement field. Our proof provides an explicit algorithm for recovering such a displacement field, which may be viewed as the linear counterpart of the reconstruction of an immersion from a given flat Riemannian metric.