Effective theories for incompressible magnetoelastic shallow shells

Abstract

We characterize the asymptotic behaviour, in the sense of $\Gamma$-convergence, of a thin magnetoelastic shallow shell. The compactness is achieved up to rigid motions. For deformations, it relies on an approximation by rigid movements, whereas for magnetizations it is based on a careful consideration of the geometry of the deformed domain. The result is obtained by a combination of variational methods ($\Gamma$-convergence) with degree theory, fixed-point and geometrical arguments. The proof strategy relies on an adaptation of an analogous result for incompressible magnetoelastic plates from M. Bresciani in arXiv:2007.14122 and an application of results by I.Velcic on elastic shallow shells in arXiv:1102.2647.