Existence of a solution for a nonlinearly elastic plane membrane “under tension”
A justification of the two-dimensional nonlinear “membrane” equations for a plate made of a Saint Venant-Kirchhoff material has been given by Fox et al. [9] by means of the method of formal asymptotic expansions applied to the three-dimensional equations of nonlinear elasticity. This model, which retains the material-frame indifference of the original three dimensional problem in the sense that its energy density is invariant under the rotations of , is equivalent to finding the critical points...