Heterogeneous elastic plates with in-plane modulation of the target curvature and applications to thin gel sheets

Virginia Agostiniani, Alessandro Lucantonio, Danka Lučić

We rigorously derive a Kirchhoff plate theory, via $\Gamma$-convergence, from a three-di\-men\-sio\-nal model that describes the finite elasticity of an elastically heterogeneous, thin…