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Room P3.10, Mathematics Building
Lucia Scardia, Hausdorff Center for Mathematics, Bonn, Germany
Convergence of equilibria for thin elastic plates under physical
growth conditions
The asymptotic behaviour of the equilibrium configurations of a
thin elastic plate is studied, as the thickness of the plate
goes to zero. More precisely, it is shown that critical points of
the functional describing the elastic energy of the thin
plate converge to critical points of the -limit of ,
in the von Kármán regime. This is proved under the physical
assumption that the elastic energy blows up in the case of total
compression.