Convergence of Equilibria for Incompressible Elastic Plates in the von K\'arm\'an Regime

Abstract

We prove convergence of critical points $u^h$ of the nonlinear elastic energies $E^h$ of thin incompressible plates $\Omega^h=\Omega \times (-h/2, h/2)$, which satisfy the von K\'arm\'an scaling: $E^h(u^h)\leq Ch^4$, to critical points of the appropriate limiting (incompressible von K\'arm\'an) functional.