Abstract
In this paper a new nonlinear two-dimensional shell model of Naghdi’s type is formulated for shells which middle surface is parameterized by a $W^{1, \infty}$ function. Therefore the model inherently contains undeformed geometries with corners, so the model also includes models of junctions of nonlinear shells. Deformation of the shell is described by a pair $(\boldsymbol{\psi}, {\mathbf{R}})$ of independent unknowns, where $\boldsymbol{\psi}$ is the deformation of the middle surface and ${\mathbf{R}}$ is a function with value in rotations that describes rotation of the shell cross-section. The model is formulated as the minimization problem for the total energy functional that includes flexural, membrane, shear and drill energies differently scaled with respect to the thickness of the shell. We relate the new model for smooth enough undeformed geometry to the known shell models in two ways. First we restrict the proposed model on two particular subsets of admissible functions and obtain exactly the flexural shell model and a perturbation of the Koiter shell model. More important, we consider asymptotics, using $\Gamma$ –convergence, of the proposed model with respect to the thickness as a small parameter in the membrane and flexural regime and obtain exactly the nonlinear membrane and flexural shell model obtained as $\Gamma$ –limits starting from nonlinear three–dimensional elasticity. In that way we link rigorously the proposed model with the nonlinear three–dimensional elasticity.
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