Energy scaling and branched microstructures in a model for shape-memory alloys with SO(2) invariance

Abstract

Domain branching near the boundary appears in many singularly-perturbed models for microstructure in materials and was first demonstrated mathematically by Kohn and Müller for a scalar problem modeling the elastic behavior of shape-memory alloys. We study here a model for shape-memory alloys based on the full vectorial problem of nonlinear elasticity, including invariance under rotations, in the case of two wells in two dimensions. We show that, for two wells with two rank-one connections, the energy scales proportional to the power $2/3$ of the surface energy, in agreement with the scalar model. In a case where only one rank-one connection is present, we show that the energy exhibits a different behavior, proportional to the power $4/5$ of the surface energy. This lower energy is achieved by a suitable interaction of the two components of the deformations and hence cannot be reproduced by the scalar model. Both scalings are proven by explicit constructions and matching lower bounds.

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