Convergence of equilibria of thin elastic plates - The von Kármán case

Communications in Partial Differential Equations

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1018-1032

  Muller S ^a,c   Pakzad, M R ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equilibria; Nonlinear elasticity; Plates; Von K rm n equations

Indexed keywords

EID: 45849145108     PISSN: 03605302     EISSN: 15324133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03605300701629443     Document Type: Article

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