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A frictionless contact problem for viscoelastic materials (English)
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13 August 2002
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Summary: We consider a mathematical model which describes the contact between a deformable body and an obstacle, the so-called foundation. The body is assumed to have a viscoelastic behavior that we model with Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law. The contact is frictionless and is modeled with the Signorini condition with zero gap function. We present two alternative yet equivalent weak formulations of the problem and establish existence and uniqueness results for both formulations. The proofs are based on a general result on evolution equations with maximal monotone operators. We then study a semi-discrete numerical scheme for the problem, in terms of displacements. The numerical scheme has a unique solution. We show the convergence of the scheme under basic solution regularity. Under appropriate regularity assumptions on the solution, we also provide optimal order error estimates.
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Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law
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Signorini condition
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zero gap function
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weak formulation
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existence
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uniqueness
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evolution equations
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maximal monotone operators
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semi-discrete numerical scheme
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convergence
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regularity
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optimal order error estimates
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