A stability theory for second-order nonsmooth dynamical systems with application to friction problems. (Q1429969)

An extension of the LaSalle invariance principle is developed for a large class of first-order evolution variational inequalities \[ x(t) \in D( \partial \varphi )\quad\text{for }t \geq t_0, \] \[ \biggl\langle {dx \over dt}(t)+F(x(t)),v-x(t) \biggr\rangle + \varphi (v) - \varphi (x(t)) \geq 0\quad\text{for }v \in \mathbb R^n \text{ and a.a. }t \geq t_0 , x(t_0) = x_0, \] and applied to study stability and asymptotic properties of the important classes of second-order dynamic systems \[ H_2 {dq \over dt} (t) \in D( \partial \Phi )\quad\text{for }t\geq t_0, \] \[ M { d^2 q \over dt^2} (t) + C {dq \over dt }+ K q(t) \in - H_1 \partial \Phi \biggl(H_2 {dq \over dt} (t) \biggr),\quad\text{ for a.a. }t \geq t_0. \] The term \(H_1 \partial \Phi\) is introduced in order to model the unilaterality of the contact induced by friction forces together with some illustrative small-sized examples in mechanics.