On the nonlinear boundary equations of the mechanics of the contact of rough elastic bodies (Q1108858)

As a generalization of the author's results [ibid. 48, 1020-1029 (1984; Zbl 0589.73099)], the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the contact problem of several rough elastic bodies (with the example of the contact of three bodies) is proved. The method of nonlinear boundary equations is used, which (like the variational method) enables an effective investigation to be made of the correctness of the problem of body contact with unknown contact domains.