We consider a cylindrical three-dimensional body, made of a Saint Venant-Kirchhoff material, and we let its thickness go to zero. For a specific order of magnitude for the applied loads and under appropriate restrictions on the set of admissible deformations, we show that the almost-minimizers of the total energy converge toward deformations that minimize the nonlinear bending energy obtained by Fox, Raoult and Simo using formal asymptotic expansions. Our result is obtained by Γ-convergence arguments.
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(Accepted September 18, 2002) Published online January 15, 2003
Communicated by S. Müller
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Pantz, O. On the Justification of the Nonlinear Inextensional Plate Model. Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 167, 179–209 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-002-0238-1
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00205-002-0238-1