Balanced-viscosity solutions for multi-rate systems

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Abstract: Several mechanical systems are modeled by the static momentum balance for the displacement u coupled with a rate-independent flow rule for some internal variable z. We consider a class of abstract systems of ODEs which have the same structure, albeit in a finite-dimensional setting, and regularize both the static equation and the rate-independent flow rule by adding viscous dissipation terms with coefficients varepsilonalpha and varepsilon, where 0<varepsilonll1 and alpha>0 is a fixed parameter. Therefore for alphaeq1 u and z have different relaxation rates. We address the vanishing-viscosity analysis as varepsilondownarrow0 of the viscous system. We prove that, up to a subsequence, (reparameterized) viscous solutions converge to a parameterized curve yielding a Balanced Viscosity solution to the original rate-independent system, and providing an accurate description of the system behavior at jumps. We also give a reformulation of the notion of Balanced Viscosity solution in terms of a system of subdifferential inclusions, showing that the viscosity in u and the one in z are involved in the jump dynamics in different ways, according to whether alpha>1, alpha=1, and alphain(0,1).









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