A frictionless contact problem for viscoelastic materials

DOI10.1155/S1110757X02000219zbMath1035.74040MaRDI QIDQ1608810

Weimin Han, Mircea Sofonea, Mikäel Barboteu

Publication date: 13 August 2002

Published in: Journal of Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://eudml.org/doc/50719

zbMATH Keywords

regularity; convergence; maximal monotone operators; existence; uniqueness; weak formulation; evolution equations; optimal order error estimates; Signorini condition; Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law; semi-discrete numerical scheme; zero gap function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74M15: Contact in solid mechanics

74S05: Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics

65N15: Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs

65N30: Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs

74G30: Uniqueness of solutions of equilibrium problems in solid mechanics

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