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Publication 09-CNA-11
Nonlocal Character of the Reduced Theory of Thin Films with Higher Order Perturbations G. Dal Maso Giovanni Leoni Abstract: In this paper it is shown that, when there is lack of coercivity with respect to some partial derivatives on the underlying field , then the relaxation of the functional may fail to be local. This result is applied to a singular perturbation model for a membrane energy depending on deformations and out-of-plane bending. Get the paper in its entirety as |