Homogenization of variational inequalities for the biharmonic operator with constraints on \(\varepsilon\)-periodically arranged subsets (Q2459697)

The author deals with the behaviour of variational inequalities for the biharmonic operator in a domain \(Q\) with one-sided constraints on \(\varepsilon\)-periodically arranged subsets of \(Q\). It is shown that for spaces with dimension \(n\geq 4\), one can analyze all possible types of behaviour of solutions \(V_\varepsilon\) of variational inequalities as \(\varepsilon\to 0\), depending on the relationship between \(\varepsilon\) and the shrink factor \(b_\varepsilon\) of the subsets on which one-sided constraints are given. The author indicates that one can consider in a similar way the cases \(n= 2\) and \(n= 3\), but the most interesting behaviour occur for \(n\geq 4\).