Marginal Material Stability

Marginal stability plays an important role in nonlinear elasticity because the associated minimally stable states usually delineate failure thresholds. In this paper we study the local (material) aspect of marginal stability. The weak notion of marginal stability at a point, associated with the loss of strong ellipticity, is classical. States that are marginally stable in the strong sense are located at the boundary of the quasi-convexity domain and their characterization is the main goal of this paper. We formulate a set of bounds for such states in terms of solvability conditions for an auxiliary nucleation problem formulated in the whole space and present nontrivial examples where the obtained bounds are tight.

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