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This paper is concerned with a noncoercive unilateral problem in nonlinear elasticity with stored energy function having fast or slow growth. We prove an existence result for the associated minimization problem by using a recession approach in Orlicz—Sobolev space.
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Le, V.K. Noncoercive Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity with Stored Energies Having Fast or Slow Growth: Orlicz—Sobolev Space Setting. Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications 119, 83–103 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:JOTA.0000005042.36316.3a
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