TY - JOUR T1 - Shell theories arising as low energy Gamma-limit of 3d nonlinear elasticity JF - Ann. Scuola Norm. Sup. Pisa Cl. Sci. (5) Vol. IX (2010) 253-295 Y1 - 2010 A1 - Marta Lewicka A1 - Maria Giovanna Mora A1 - Mohammad Reza Pakzad AB - We discuss the limiting behavior (using the notion of gamma-limit) of the 3d nonlinear elasticity for thin shells around an arbitrary smooth 2d surface. In particular, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales like h4, h being the thickness of a shell, we derive a limiting theory which is a generalization of the von Karman theory for plates. UR - http://hdl.handle.net/1963/2601 U1 - 1521 U2 - Mathematics U3 - Functional Analysis and Applications ER -