Non-uniqueness and stability of two-family fiber-reinforced incompressible hyper-elastic sheet under equibiaxial loading＊.pdfVIP

App1．Math．Mech．一Eng1．Ed．，34(12)2013) Applied Mathematics DOI101007／s10483—013—1763一x andMechanics ⑥ShanghaiUniversityandSpringer—Verlag BerlinHeidelberg2013 (EnglishEdition) Non--uniquenessand stability oftwo--family fiber-reinforced incompressiblehyper-elasticsheetunderequibiaxialloading Jiu-shengREN (任九生)，Chang—junCHENG (程昌钧) (DepartmentofMechanics，ShanghaiKeyLaboratoryofMechanicsinEnergyand EnvironmentEngineering，ShanghaiUniversity，Shanghai200444，P．R．China) A bstract Theproblemson thenon．．uniquenessand stability ofa two．．family fiber．． reinforced anisotropicincompressiblehyper—elasticsquaresheetunderequibiaxialtensile dead loading areexamined within the framework offiniteelasticity．Foratwo-family fiber—reinforcedsquaresheet，whichisin—planesymmetricandsub{ectedtothein—plane symmetrictension indead loadingon theedges)threesymmetricallydeformed configu— rationsandsixasymmetricallydeofrmed configurationsarepossibleforanyvaluesofthe loading．Moreover，anotherfourbifurcatedasymmetrically deformedconfigurationsare possibleofrtheloadingbeyondacertain criticalvalue．Thestabilityofallthesolutions isdiscussedincomparisonwiththeenergyofthesheet．Itisshownthatonly oneofthe symmetricsolutionsisstablewhen theloadingislessthan thecriticalvalue．However． thissymmetricsolutionwillbecomeunstablewhentheloadingislargerthanthecritical value，whileoneoftheoforbifurcatedasymmetricsolutionswillbestable． K ey words two-familyfiber—reinforcedincompressiblehyper—elasticsquaresheet，non— uniqueness，stability,symmetricandasymmetricdeformation，equibiaxialloading ChineseLibrary Classification 0343 2010MathematicsSubjectClassification 74B20 1 Introduction