Variational formulations on Thin Elastic Plates with Constraints
Omar Anza Hafsa · Journal of convex analysis · 2005
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