Relative Bending Energy for Weakly Prestrained Shells

Silvia Jimenez Bolanos, Anna Zemlaynova

In this paper, we derive a dimensionally reduced model for a thin film prestrained with a given incompatible Riemannian metric: $$G^h(x',x_3)=I_3+2h^γ\,S(x')+2h^{γ/2}\,x_3B(x')+h.o…