Regularization and existence of solutions in the equilibrium problem for an elastoplastic plate (Q1271985)

The author proves an existence theorem for the equilibrium problem for an elastoplastic plate which guarantees validity of all boundary conditions. The case in which domains have smooth boundaries is considered as well as the case of domains with cuts. The proof is based on a special combination of the regularization method and penalty method. Namely, elliptic regularization is applied for solving the penalized boundary value problem that approximates the original elastoplastic problem. An existence theorem for the original problem is obtained by passing to the limit over the regularization and penalty parameters. The author notes that the proposed way of regularization turns out to be rather effective and useful for analysis of other elastoplastic problems. The essence of the method consists in the fact that the regularization of penalized equations is accompanied by special regularization conditions on the boundary.