A VARIATIONAL-HEMIVARIATIONAL INEQUALITY IN CONTACT PROBLEM FOR LOCKING MATERIALS AND NONMONOTONE SLIP DEPENDENT FRICTION

We study a new class of elliptic variational-hemivariational inequalities arising in the modelling of contact problems for elastic ideally locking materials. The contact is described by the Signorini unilateral contact condition and the friction is modelled by the nonmonotone multivalued subdifferential condition which depends on the slip. The problem is governed by a nonlinear elasticity operator, the subdifferential of the indicator function of a convex set which describes the locking constraints and a nonconvex locally Lipschitz friction potential. The result on existence and uniqueness of solution to the inequality is shown. The proof is based on a surjectivity result for maximal monotone and pseudomonotone operators combined with the application of the Banach contraction principle.

A GENERALIZED PENALTY METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIAL VARIATIONAL-HEMIVARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES

We consider a differential variational-hemivariational inequality with constraints,in the framework of reflexive Banach spaces.The existence of a unique mild solution of the inequality,together with its stability,was proved in[1].Here,we complete these results with existence,uniqueness and convergence results for an associated penalty-type method.To this end,we construct a sequence of perturbed differential variational-hemivariational inequalities governed by perturbed sets of constraints and penalty coefficients.We prove the unique solvability of each perturbed inequality as well as the convergence of its solution to the solution of the original inequality.Then,we consider a mathematical model which describes the equilibrium of a viscoelastic rod in unilateral contact.The weak formulation of the model is in a form of a differential variational-hemivariational inequality in which the unknowns are the displacement field and the history of the deformation.We apply our abstract penalty method in the study of this inequality and provide the corresponding mechanical interpretations.

Stability analysis for evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequalities with constraint sets

In this paper,we provide the stability analysis for an evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequality in the reflexive Banach space,whose data including the constraint set are perturbed.First,by using its perturbed data and the duality mapping,the perturbed and regularized problems for the evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequality are constructed,respectively.Then,by proving the unique solvability for the evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequality and its perturbed and regularized problems,we obtain two sequences called approximating sequences of the solution to the evolutionary variational-hemivariational inequality,and prove their strong convergence to the unique solution to the evolutionary variationalhemivariational inequality under different mild conditions.

Numerical analysis of history-dependent variational-hemivariational inequalities

In this paper,numerical analysis is carried out for a class of history-dependent variationalhemivariational inequalities by arising in contact problems.Three different numerical treatments for temporal discretization are proposed to approximate the continuous model.Fixed-point iteration algorithms are employed to implement the implicit scheme and the convergence is proved with a convergence rate independent of the time step-size and mesh grid-size.A special temporal discretization is introduced for the history-dependent operator,leading to numerical schemes for which the unique solvability and error bounds for the temporally discrete systems can be proved without any restriction on the time step-size.As for spatial approximation,the finite element method is applied and an optimal order error estimate for the linear element solutions is provided under appropriate regularity assumptions.Numerical examples are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.