I guess it's time that I cite some papers that are relevant to what I am looking at.
A paper by
L.Mahadevan et al.: Elements of draping
and another one
Confined elastic developable surfaces: cylinders, cones and the elastica,
E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (A), 461, 671-700, 2005.
E. Cerda and L. Mahadevan, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (A), 461, 671-700, 2005.