Existence of large-data global weak solutions to a model of a strain-limiting viscoelastic body (Q2032129)

The authors deal with the periodic with respect to \(x\) initial-boundary value problem describing the viscoelastic bodies exhibiting the strain-limited behaviour \begin{align*} &\boldsymbol{u}_{tt}=\text{div}(\mathbb{T})+\boldsymbol{f},\quad \varepsilon(\boldsymbol{u}_{t}+\alpha \boldsymbol{u})= \dfrac{\mathbb{T}}{(1+|\mathbb{T}|^\alpha)^{1/\alpha}}=:F(\mathbb{T})\quad \text{in}\ Q,\\ & \boldsymbol{u}(0,.)=\boldsymbol{u}_0,\ \boldsymbol{u}_t(0,.)=\boldsymbol{v}_0\quad\text{in}\ \Omega, \end{align*} where \(\mathbb{T}\) is a symmetric Cauchy stress tensor, \(Q=(0,T)\times\Omega,\ \Omega = (0,1)^d,\ d\ge 2\) and periodic boundary conditions hold. The problem is solved by substitution of monotonic but not bijective function \(\mathbb{T}\mapsto F(\mathbb{T})\) by its regularization \(F_n(\mathbb{T})=F(\mathbb{T})+\dfrac{\mathbb{T}}{n(1+|\mathbb{T}|^{1-1/n})}\). The existence and uniqueness of a weak solution to the original problem is verified.