Quasistatic evolution models for thin plates arising as low energy Gamma-limits of finite plasticity

In this paper we deduce by Γ-convergence some partially and fully linearized quasistatic evolution models for thin plates, in the framework of finite plasticity. Denoting by ε the thickness of the plate, we study the case where the scaling factor of the elasto- plastic energy is of order ε^ (2α-2), with α>=3. We show that solutions to the three- dimensional quasistatic evolution problems converge, as the thickness of the plate tends to zero, to a quasistatic evolution associated to a suitable reduced model depending on α.