Variational models for prestrained plates with Monge-Ampère constraint. (Q499055)

The authors derive a new variational model for the description of prestrained elastic thin films. Their reference configuration is a midplate \(\Omega\) with a small thickness \(h\). The main results are the derivation of the variational model for linearized Kirchhoff-like energy subject to Monge-Ampère constraint \(\text{det}\,\nabla^2v=f\), the derivation of the matching property for the continuation of infinitesimal isometries, to exact isometries and a study of multiplicity properties of the minimizers of the derived model in the rotationally symmetric case.