“…where e(u) denotes the approximate symmetric gradient of u. In this respect, we mention results on compactness and lower semicontinuity [5,12,16,15,27,30,43], Ambrosio-Tortorelli approximations [11,13,14,23,33], dimension reduction, homogenization, atomistic derivation, and nonlocal approximations [1,3,6,10,26,28,31,38,40,41,42], linearization in elasticity [2,24,25], and modeling of fracture, epitaxially strained films, and stress-driven rearragnement instabilities [19,22,29,34]. The common feature of the above mentioned works is that the underlying ambient space is of euclidean type.…”