@article {2011,
	title = {Gamma-convergence of energies for nematic elastomers in the small strain limit},
	journal = {Continuum. Mech. Therm.},
	volume = { 23},
	number = {SISSA;07/2011/M},
	year = {2011},
	publisher = {Springer},
	chapter = {257},
	abstract = {<p>We study two variational models recently proposed in the literature to describe the mechanical behaviour of nematic elastomers either in the fully nonlinear regime or in the framework of a geometrically linear theory. We show that, in the small strain limit, the energy functional of the first one I\\\"-converges to the relaxation of the second one, a functional for which an explicit representation formula is available.</p>},
	keywords = {Liquid crystals},
	doi = {10.1007/s00161-011-0180-2},
	url = {http://hdl.handle.net/1963/4141},
	author = {Virginia Agostiniani and Antonio DeSimone}
}
