Dynamic frictional contact for elastic viscoplastic material

Abstract

Using a general theory for evolution inclusions, existence and uniqueness theorems are obtained for weak solutions to a frictional dynamic contact problem for elastic visco-plastic material. An existence theorem in the case where the friction coefficient is discontinuous is also presented.

Keywords

• Dynamic frictional contact
• set-valued inclusions
• existence
• uniqueness
• discontinuous friction coefficient
• normal compliance
• elastic visco-plastic material