Umberto Mosco

(University of Worcester, USA):


Reinforcement of elastic membranes with fractal strings.

Abstract:
We consider a composite body consisting in a plane elastic membrane reinforced with the insertion of thin, but hard, elastic strings. As the strings become thinner and thinner, they develop infinite length and fractal geometry, while their elasticity modulus becomes larger and larger. We study the asymptotic behavior of the spectrum by the energy approach of homogenization theory and characterize the limit problem.




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