Abstract

We derive variational formulations for thin elastic plates from bulk energies by dimensional reduction. The main feature is to consider a family of problems with internal constraints on normal deformations. Our approach consists of two stages. First we obtain an abstract variational convergence result. Then we study the integral representation of the limit functional

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Omar Anza Hafsa

Institute of Mathematics, University of Zürich, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
and: EMIAN, CUFR, Site de Carmes, Place Gabriel Péri, Cedex 01-30021 Nîmes, France

anza@math.unizh.ch

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Suggested citation

O. Anza Hafsa. “Variational formulations on Thin Elastic Plates with Constraints.” Journal of Convex Analysis 12 (2005), No. 2, 365–382. https://doi.org/10.68381/jca12025

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