Lewicka, MartaMora, Maria GiovannaPakzad, Mohammad Reza2008-10-022008-10-022008-10-02https://hdl.handle.net/11299/43833We discuss the limiting behavior (using the notion of \Gamma-limit) of the 3d nonlinear elasticity for thin shells around an arbitrary smooth 2d surface. In particular, under the assumption that the elastic energy of deformations scales like h4, h being the thickness of a shell, we derive a limiting theory which is a generalization of the von Karman theory for plates.shell theoriesnonlinear elasticity\Gamma-convergencecalculus of variationsArticle