Abstract
The method of asymptotic expansions used by P.G. Ciarlet and his co-workers for justifying the two-dimensional Kirchhoff Love theory of linearly or nonlinearly elastic plates relies in a crucial way on appropriate sea lings of the components of the displacement and appropriate assumptions on the data (Lamé constants and applied forces). We give here a complete justification of these scalings and assumptions on the data in the linearized case.
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