Abstract: In a previous article (see [BFM]) the autors
studied a model of nonlinear membrane where the external surface loading
induces a density of bending moment. Due to the special form of the applied
surface forces, the emerging Cosserat vector, resulting from the 3D-2D
dimension reduction, was restricted to a class of two dimensional functions.
In the paper the full 3D dependence of the Cosserat vector is analyzed via
-convergence techniques.
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