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The general theory of slender structure buckling by Grabovsky and Truskinovsky (Cont. Mech. Thermodyn. 19(3–4):211-243, 2007), (later extended in J. Nonlinear Sci. 26(1):83–119, 2016 by Grabovsky and the author), predicts that the critical buckling load of a thin shell under dead loading is closely related to the Korn’s constant (in Korn’s first inequality) of the shell under the Dirichlet boundary conditions resulting from the loading program. It is known that under zero Dirichlet boundary conditions on the thin part of the boundary of positive, negative, and zero (one principal curvature vanishing, and one apart from zero) Gaussian curvature shells, the optimal Korn constant in Korn’s first inequality scales like the thickness to the power of −1, \(-4/3\), and \(-3/2\) respectively. In this work we analyse the scaling of the optimal constant in Korn’s first inequality for elliptic shells that contain a finite number of points where both principal curvatures vanish. We prove that the presence of at least one such point on the shell leads to the scaling drop from the thickness to the power of −1 to the thickness to the power of \(-3/2\). To our best knowledge, this is the first result in the direction for constant-sign curvature shells, that do not contain a developable region. In addition, under the assumption that a suitable trivial branch exists, we prove that in fact the buckling deformation of such shells under dead loading, should be localized at the vanishing curvature points, as the shell thickness \(h\) goes to zero.
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The direction of the normal does not matter here.
In case there exist multiple such points, we choose just one.
Note, that a body is called slender if \(\lim _{h\to 0}C_{1}=\infty \).
Variations that may make the second variation negative.
We believe the assumptions below without a proof should be possible to justify rigorously at least for vase-like shells \(\Omega ^{h}\) looking like cut spheres, etc.
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Harutyunyan, D. A Hint on the Localization of the Buckling Deformation at Vanishing Curvature Points on Thin Elliptic Shells. J Elast 152, 61–77 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-022-09954-9
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