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Publication 06-CNA-04
Thin Elastic Films: The Impact of Higher Order Perturbations and Erratum Irene Fonseca Gilles Francfort Giovanni Leoni Abstract: The asymptotic behavior of an elastic thin film penalized by a van der Wals type interfacial energy is investigated when both its thickness and the magnitude of the additional energy vanish in the limit. Keeping track of both mid-plane and out of plane deformations (through the introduction of the Cosserat vector), the resulting behavior strongly depends upon the ratio between thickness and interfacial energy. Get the paper in its entirety as 06-CNA-004.pdf |