Upper and lower solution estimates in unilateral viscoelastodynamics (Q1085663)

The variational and bounding method of hypercircle for linear, elliptic, boundary-value problems of mathematical physics [e.g. \textit{W. Velte}, Direkte Methoden der Variationsrechnung (1976; Zbl 0333.49035)], is extended in this paper to inequality, evolution problems of time- dependent structural mechanics. So a procedure is presented, which provides two-sided estimates for solution quantities, either global or local, of the initial mixed boundary-value problem in piecewise linearized unilateral viscoelastodynamics.