In this paper, we show that the high frequency modes of a thin clamped plate and the associated eigenfunctions converge, as the thickness of the plate goes to zero, to the eigenvalues and the eigenfunctions of a two-dimensional eigenvalue problem associated to the stretching displacements of the plate.

In this paper, we show that the spectral problem associated to stretching modes in a thin folded plate can be derived from the three-dimensional eigenvalue problem of linear elasticity through a rigourous convergence analysis as the thickness of the plate goes to zero. We show, using a nonstandard asymptotic analysis technique, that each stretching frequency of an elastic thin folded plate is the limit of a family of high frequencies of the three-dimensional linearized elasticity system in the folded plate, as the thickness approaches zero.