scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1415145

Existence of solutions for minimax problems (49J35) Variational inequalities (49J40) Nonsmooth analysis (49J52) Abstract critical point theory (Morse theory, Lyusternik-Shnirel'man theory, etc.) in infinite-dimensional spaces (58E05) Elastic materials (74B99)

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The paper deals with the study of a class of unilateral problems which can be described by means of a variational-hemivariational inequality. The problem involves both monotone and nonmonotone boundary conditions and the corresponding energy functional is expressed as the sum of a locally Lipschitz functional and a proper, convex and lower semicontinuous function whose critical points appear as the solutions of another variational-hemivariational inequality. The proofs use basic minimax methods in the nonsmooth critical point theory in the sense of Clarke. We consider that the paper gives an interesting point of view for the mathematical treatment of certain classes of unilateral problems arising in nonsmooth elasticity. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0930.00093].

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