Ja. Alvarezdios et Jm. Viano, A BENDING AND STRETCHING ASYMPTOTIC THEOR Y FOR GENERAL ELASTIC SHALLOW ARCHES, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie 1, Mathematique, 321(10), 1995, pp. 1395-1400
A coupled bending and stretching model for slender shallow arches (pla
nar or not) is obtained from the tridimensional linear elasticity mode
l as the area of the cross section tends to zero. We prove a convergen
ce result justifying the method from a mathematical viewpoint, and we
also give a precise definition of ''shallow arch''.