Contact problems and elastoplastic problems are unified and described by the variational inequality formulation, in which the constraints of the constitutional relations for elastoplastic materials and the contact con...Contact problems and elastoplastic problems are unified and described by the variational inequality formulation, in which the constraints of the constitutional relations for elastoplastic materials and the contact conditions are relaxed totally. First, the coerciveness of the functional is proved. Then the uniqueness of the solution of variational inequality for the elastoplastic contact problems is demonstrated. The existence of the solution is also demonstrated according to the sufficient conditions for the solution of the elliptic variational inequality. A mathematical foundation is developed for the variational extremum principle of elastoplastic contact problems. The developed variational extremum forms can give an effective and strict mathematical modeling to solve contact problems with mathematical programming.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.10672039)the Key Project of Ministry of Education of China(No.105083)
文摘Contact problems and elastoplastic problems are unified and described by the variational inequality formulation, in which the constraints of the constitutional relations for elastoplastic materials and the contact conditions are relaxed totally. First, the coerciveness of the functional is proved. Then the uniqueness of the solution of variational inequality for the elastoplastic contact problems is demonstrated. The existence of the solution is also demonstrated according to the sufficient conditions for the solution of the elliptic variational inequality. A mathematical foundation is developed for the variational extremum principle of elastoplastic contact problems. The developed variational extremum forms can give an effective and strict mathematical modeling to solve contact problems with mathematical programming.