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Publication 99-CNA-15
3D-2D Asymptotic Analysis for Inhomogeneous Thin Films
Andrea Braides
Irene Fonseca Abstract: A dimension reduction analysis is undertaken using -convergence techniques within a relaxation theory for 3D nonlinear elastic thin domains of the form where is a bounded domain of and is an -dependent profile. An abstract representation of the effective 2D energy is obtained, and specific characterizations are found for nonhomogeneous plate models, periodic profiles, and within the context of optimal design for thin films. Keywords : dimension reduction, -convergence, plate models, 1998 Mathematics Subject Classification: 35E99, 35M10, 49J45, 74B20, 74K15, 74K20, 74K35.
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