(1) Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, U.S.A. E-mail;(2) Department of Civil Engineering, University of Parma, Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, I, 43100 Parma, Italy
Abstract:
The first variation condition for the potential energy in nonlinear elasticity for incompressible materials provides a linear
functional which vanishes on an appropriately constrained set of variations. We prove a representation theorem for such linear
functionals which forms the basis for the existence of a constraint reaction (Lagrange multiplier) field.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.