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A note on convergence of low energy critical points of nonlinear elasticity functionals, for thin shells of arbitrary geometry

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 March 2010

Marta Lewicka
Marta Lewicka*
Affiliation:
Marta Lewicka, University of Minnesota, Department of Mathematics, 206 Church St. S.E., Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA. lewicka@math.umn.edu
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Abstract

We prove that the critical points of the 3d nonlinear elasticity functional on shells of small thickness h and around the mid-surface S of arbitrary geometry, converge as h → 0 to the critical points of the von Kármán functional on S, recently proposed in [Lewicka et al., Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (to appear)]. This result extends the statement in [Müller and Pakzad, Comm. Part. Differ. Equ.33 (2008) 1018–1032], derived for the case of plates when $S\subset\mathbb{R}^2$. The convergence holds provided the elastic energies of the 3d deformations scale like h4 and the external body forces scale like h3.

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Shell theoriesnonlinear elasticityGamma convergencecalculus of variations
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Research Article
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ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , April 2011 , pp. 493 - 505
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© EDP Sciences, SMAI, 2010

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