Estimating the stress and fatigue damage of a thin film with non-linear viscoelastic using asymptotic analysis (Q6489232)

The author considers a thin film \(\Omega ^{\varepsilon }=\{x=(x^{\prime },x_{3})\in \mathbb{R}^{3}:(x^{\prime },0)\in \omega \), \(0<x_{3}<\varepsilon h(x^{\prime })\}\), where \(\omega \) is a bounded and smooth 2D domain and \(h\) a positive smooth function in \(C^{1}(\omega )\). \(\Gamma _{1}^{\varepsilon }\) is the upper surface of the body, and \(\Gamma _{L}^{\varepsilon }\) its lateral boundary. A viscoelastic material fills the thin film and is given the nonlinear constitutive law with damage: \(\sigma ^{\varepsilon }(t)= \mathcal{A}^{\varepsilon }(e(u^{\varepsilon }(t)),\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t))+ \mathcal{B}^{\varepsilon }(e(\overset{.}{u}^{\varepsilon }(t)))\), where \( \mathcal{A}^{\varepsilon }\) and \(\mathcal{B}^{\varepsilon }\) denote the elasticity and viscosity operators, respectively, which satisfy Lipschitz continuity, measurability, regularity and coercivity properties. This material is in frictional contact with the lower surface of the thin film. The author writes the frictional problem in a variational form as: Find a displacement field \(u^{\varepsilon }:[0,T]\rightarrow V^{\varepsilon }\), a stress field \(v^{\varepsilon }:[0,T]\rightarrow Q_{1}^{\varepsilon }\), and a damage field \(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }:[0,T]\rightarrow H_{\Gamma _{1}^{\varepsilon }}^{1}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon })\), such that: \((\sigma ^{\varepsilon }(t),e(w-\overset{.}{u}^{\varepsilon }(t))_{Q^{\varepsilon }}+J(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t);u^{\varepsilon }(t),w)-J(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t);u^{\varepsilon }(t),\overset{.}{u}^{\varepsilon }(t))\geq (\sigma ^{\varepsilon }(t),e(w-\overset{.}{u}^{\varepsilon }(t))_{H^{\varepsilon }}+\int_{\Gamma _{L}^{\varepsilon }}g^{\varepsilon }(t)\cdot (w-\overset{.}{u }^{\varepsilon }(t))\), for all \(w\in V^{\varepsilon }\), \(t\in \lbrack 0,T]\), \(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t)\in \mathcal{K}^{\varepsilon }\), \((\overset{.}{ \zeta }^{\varepsilon }(t),\xi -\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t))+a(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t),\xi -\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t))\geq (\phi ^{\varepsilon }(e(u^{\varepsilon }(t)),\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t)),\xi -\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(t))_{L^{2}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon })}\), for all \(\xi \in \mathcal{K} ^{\varepsilon }\), a. e. \(t\in (0,T)\).\ Here \(V^{\varepsilon }=\{v\in H^{1}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon })^{3}:v=0\) on \(\Gamma _{1}^{\varepsilon }\), \( v_{3}=0\) on \(\omega \}\), \(Q^{\varepsilon }=L^{2}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon })^{3\times 3}\), \(\mathcal{K}^{\varepsilon }=\{\xi ^{\varepsilon }\in H_{\Gamma _{1}^{\varepsilon }}^{1}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon }):\xi ^{\varepsilon }\in \lbrack 0,1]\) a.e. on \(\Omega ^{\varepsilon }\}\), \(J:\mathcal{K} ^{\varepsilon }\times V^{\varepsilon }\times V^{\varepsilon }\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) is defined as: \(J(\zeta ;u,v)=\int_{\omega }\mu ^{\varepsilon }\left\vert \mathcal{R}\sigma _{\nu }^{\varepsilon }(\zeta ,u)\right\vert \left\vert v\right\vert dx_{1}dx_{2}\), \(\mathcal{R}\) representing a regularization linear and continuous operator \(\mathcal{R}:H^{-1/2}(\omega )\rightarrow L^{2}(\omega )\), and \(\sigma _{\nu }^{\varepsilon }(\zeta ,u)= \mathcal{A}_{33}^{\varepsilon }(e(u),\zeta )+\mathcal{B}_{33}^{\varepsilon }(e(\overset{.}{u}))\), and \(\phi :\Omega ^{\varepsilon }\times \mathbb{S} ^{3}\times \mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}\) satisfy Lipschitz continuity, measurability, and regularity properties. The initial conditions \( u^{\varepsilon }(0)=u_{0}^{\varepsilon }\) and \(\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(0)=\zeta _{0}^{\varepsilon }\) are imposed. The author first proves that for any \(\varepsilon \) small fixed, there exists \(\{u^{\varepsilon },\sigma ^{\varepsilon },\zeta ^{\varepsilon }\}\in C^{1}(0,T,V^{\varepsilon })\times C(0,T,Q_{1}^{\varepsilon })\times (W^{1,2}(0,T,L^{2}(\Omega ^{\varepsilon }))\cap L^{2}(0,T,H_{\Gamma _{1}^{\varepsilon }}^{1}))\) solution to this problem. Moreover, if \(\mu ^{\varepsilon }\) is small, this solution is unique. The author then introduces the change of scales \(\widehat{u} _{i}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },z,t)=\varepsilon ^{-1}u_{i}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },\varepsilon z,t)\), \(i=1,2\), \(\widehat{u}_{3}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },z,t)=\varepsilon ^{-2}u_{3}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },\varepsilon z,t)\), \(\widehat{\zeta }^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },z,t)=\zeta ^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },\varepsilon z,t)\), \(\widehat{\sigma } _{ij}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },z,t)=\sigma _{ij}^{\varepsilon }(x^{\prime },\varepsilon z,t)\), \(i,j=1,2,3\), \(\forall (x^{\prime },x_{3})\in \Omega =\{x=(x^{\prime },z)\in \mathbb{R}^{3}:(x^{\prime },0)\in \omega ,0<z<h(x^{\prime })\}\), \(\forall t\in ]0,T[\). The author proves uniform bounds for the displacement field and the damage field, their spatial derivatives and derivative with respect to time, in appropriate norms possibly weighted with positive powers of \(\varepsilon \). The author here uses Gronwall's inequality and Korn's inequality in the fixed domain \(\Omega \). If the function \(\mu \) is positive in \(L^{\infty }(\omega )\cap H^{1/2}(\omega )\) and if the boundary \(\partial \Omega \) is of class \(C^{3}\) , the author proves further estimates on spatial derivatives of the displacement field, the damage field, and their derivative with respect to time. Under the preceding hypotheses, the author proves the existence of \( u^{\star }=(u_{1}^{\star },u_{2}^{\star })\in C(0,T,(H_{z})^{2})\), of \(\zeta ^{\star }\in W^{1,2}(0,T,V_{z})\cap L^{2}(0,T,H_{z})\) and of \(\sigma ^{\star }=(\sigma _{1}^{\star },\sigma _{2}^{\star })\in W^{1,2}(0,T,V_{z})\) in \( C(0,T,\Pi (H_{div}^{1}))\) such that, when \(\varepsilon \) tends to 0, the convergences \(\widehat{u}_{i}^{\varepsilon }\rightarrow u_{i}^{\star }\), strongly in \(C^{1}(0,T,V_{z})\), \(\widehat{\zeta }^{\varepsilon }\rightarrow \zeta ^{\star }\), strongly in \(C^{1}(0,T,V_{z})\), and \(\widehat{\sigma } _{i3}^{\varepsilon }\rightarrow \sigma _{i}^{\star }\), strongly in \( C(0,T,V_{z})\), hold. He also proves strong convergences for the weighted displacement field, its time and spatial derivatives, and on spatial derivatives of the damage field. The main result of the paper establishes the asymptotic constitutive law satisfied by \((u^{\star },\zeta ^{\star },\sigma ^{\star })\), the boundary conditions satisfied by the traces of \( (u^{\star },\zeta ^{\star },\sigma ^{\star })\), and a Reynolds boundary equation in a weak generalized form satisfied by \((u^{\star },\zeta ^{\star },\sigma ^{\star })\). He finally proves that the solution to this asymptotic problem is unique.