%0 Journal Article %D 2012 %T Convergence of equilibria of thin elastic plates under physical growth conditions for the energy density %A Maria Giovanna Mora %A Lucia Scardia %X
The asymptotic behaviour of the equilibrium configurations of a thin elastic plate is studied, as the thickness $h$ of the plate goes to zero. More precisely, it is shown that critical points of the nonlinear elastic functional $\mathcal E^h$, whose energies (per unit thickness) are bounded by $Ch^4$, converge to critical points of the $\Gamma$-limit of $h^{-4}\mathcal E^h$. This is proved under the physical assumption that the energy density $W(F)$ blows up as $\det F\to0$.
%I Elsevier %G en %U http://hdl.handle.net/1963/3466 %1 7112 %2 Mathematics %4 -1 %$ Submitted by Francesca Arici (farici@sissa.it) on 2013-09-18T08:46:46Z No. of bitstreams: 1 0901.4041v1.pdf: 233717 bytes, checksum: 3fc33c8ee52cddb0adf0a197c87d0ce8 (MD5) %R 10.1016/j.jde.2011.09.009