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In this paper we derive the linear elastic Cosserat shell model incorporating effects up to order O(h 5 ) in the shell thickness h as a particular case of the recently introduced geometrically nonlinear elastic Cosserat shell model. The existence and uniqueness of the solution is proven in suitable admissible sets. To this end, inequalities of Korn-type for shells are established which allow to show coercivity in the Lax-Milgram theorem. We are also showing an existence and uniqueness result for a truncated O(h 3 ) model. Main issue is the suitable treatment of the curved reference configuration of the shell. Some connections to the classical Koiter membrane-bending model are highlighted.

For 1 < p < ∞, we prove an Lp‐version of the generalized Korn inequality for incompatible tensor fields P in W01,0.1empfalse(Curl;normalΩ,ℝ3×3false). More precisely, let normalΩ⊂ℝ3 be a bounded Lipschitz domain. Then there exists a constant c = c(p, Ω) > 0 such that ‖P‖Lp(Ω,ℝ3×3)≤c‖symP‖Lp(Ω,ℝ3×3)+‖CurlP‖Lp(Ω,ℝ3×3) holds for all tensor fields P∈W01,0.1empfalse(Curl;normalΩ,ℝ3×3false), that is, for all P∈W1,0.1empfalse(Curl;normalΩ,ℝ3×3false) with vanishing tangential trace P×ν=0 on ∂Ω where ν denotes the outward unit normal vector field to ∂Ω. For compatible P=normalDu, this recovers an Lp‐version of the classical Korn's first inequality and for skew‐symmetric P=A an Lp‐version of the Poincaré inequality.

For $$n\ge 3$$ n ≥ 3 and $$1<p<\infty $$ 1 < p < ∞ , we prove an $$L^p$$ L p -version of the generalized trace-free Korn-type inequality for incompatible, p-integrable tensor fields $$P:\Omega \rightarrow \mathbb {R}^{n\times n}$$ P : Ω → R n × n having p-integrable generalized $${\text {Curl}}_{n}$$ Curl n and generalized vanishing tangential trace $$P\,\tau _l=0$$ P τ l = 0 on $$\partial \Omega $$ ∂ Ω , denoting by $$\{\tau _l\}_{l=1,\ldots , n-1}$$ { τ l } l = 1 , … , n - 1 a moving tangent frame on $$\partial \Omega $$ ∂ Ω . More precisely, there exists a constant $$c=c(n,p,\Omega )$$ c = c ( n , p , Ω ) such that $$\begin{aligned} \Vert P \Vert _{L^p(\Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{n\times n})}\le c\,\left( \Vert {\text {dev}}_n {\text {sym}}P \Vert _{L^p(\Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{n \times n})}+ \Vert {\text {Curl}}_{n} P \Vert _{L^p\left( \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{n\times \frac{n(n-1)}{2}}\right) }\right) , \end{aligned}$$ ‖ P ‖ L p ( Ω , R n × n ) ≤ c ‖ dev n sym P ‖ L p ( Ω , R n × n ) + ‖ Curl n P ‖ L p Ω , R n × n ( n - 1 ) 2 , where the generalized $${\text {Curl}}_{n}$$ Curl n is given by $$({\text {Curl}}_{n} P)_{ijk} :=\partial _i P_{kj}-\partial _j P_{ki}$$ ( Curl n P ) ijk : = ∂ i P kj - ∂ j P ki and "Equation missing" denotes the deviatoric (trace-free) part of the square matrix X. The improvement towards the three-dimensional case comes from a novel matrix representation of the generalized cross product.

For $1< p<\infty$ we prove an $L^{p}$ -version of the generalized trace-free Korn inequality for incompatible tensor fields $P$ in $W^{1,p}_0(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$ . More precisely, let $\Omega \subset \mathbb {R}^{3}$ be a bounded Lipschitz domain. Then there exists a constant $c>0$ such that \[ \lVert{ P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\leq c\,\left(\lVert{\operatorname{dev} \operatorname{sym} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})} + \lVert{ \operatorname{dev} \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\right) \] holds for all tensor fields $P\in W^{1,p}_0(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$ , i.e., for all $P\in W^{1,p} (\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$ with vanishing tangential trace $P\times \nu =0$ on $\partial \Omega$ where $\nu$ denotes the outward unit normal vector field to $\partial \Omega$ and $\operatorname {dev} P : = P -\frac 13 \operatorname {tr}(P) {\cdot } {\mathbb {1}}$ denotes the deviatoric (trace-free) part of $P$ . We also show the norm equivalence \begin{align*} &\lVert{ P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}+\lVert{ \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\\ &\quad\leq c\,\left(\lVert{P}\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})} + \lVert{ \operatorname{dev} \operatorname{Curl} P }\rVert_{L^{p}(\Omega,\mathbb{R}^{3\times 3})}\right) \end{align*} for tensor fields $P\in W^{1,p}(\operatorname {Curl}; \Omega ,\mathbb {R}^{3\times 3})$ . These estimates also hold true for tensor fields with vanishing tangential trace only on a relatively open (non-empty) subset $\Gamma \subseteq \partial \Omega$ of the boundary.