In this paper we deal with a genuinely clamped beam, that is, when the
beam is not only clamped at both ends but also at a neighbourhood of
them. We present models for genuinely clamped beams in linear and nonl
inear elasticity obtained from the three-dimensional problem by asympt
otic expansion methods. We also obtain the convergence of these models
to the usual clamped beam models as the clamping zone reduces to the
ends of the beam. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science S.A.