The contact problem in thermoviscoelastic materials

DOI10.1006/JMAA.2001.7686MaRDI QIDQ5957166zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Mitsuhiro Nakao, Jaime E. Muñoz Rivera

Publication date 11 September 2002

Published in Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/jmaa.2001.7686

hyperbolic-parabolic variational inequality polynomial decays

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Unilateral problems for linear parabolic equations and variational inequalities with linear parabolic operators (35K85) Unilateral problems for linear hyperbolic equations and variational inequalities with linear hyperbolic operators (35L85) Free boundary problems for PDEs (35R35) Nonlinear constitutive equations for materials with memory (74D10) Thermal effects in solid mechanics (74F05)

Review text

In this very important and useful paper the small longitudinal deformation along the \(x\)-axis of a one-dimensional inhomogeneous thermoviscoelastic body fixed at \(x=0\) and unilaterally constrained at \(x=L\), is considered. Here the expansion and contraction are due to thermal effects and body forces. Mathematically, this problem is expressed by the hyperbolic-parabolic variational inequality (a constraint is imposed on the unknown function): NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} u_{tt}-M \left( \int^L_0|u_x|^2 dx\right) u_{xx}+ \alpha\theta_x -\gamma u_{xxt}=0 \quad &\text{in }(0,L) \times(0,\infty)\\ \theta_t -\kappa\theta_{xx} +\alpha u_{xt}=0 \quad &\text{in }(0,L)\times (0, \infty)\\ u(0,t)=\theta (0,t)=\theta (L,t)=0\quad & t>0\\ u(x,0)=u_0(x),\quad u_t(x, 0) =u_1(x),\quad & \theta(x,0) =\theta_0(x) \end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE with the contact conditions NEWLINE\[NEWLINE\begin{cases} u(L,t)\leq g,\;M\left(\int^L_0|u_x|^2 dx\right) u_x (L,t)+ \gamma u_{xt} (L,t)\leq 0\\ \left\{M\left( \int^L_0|u_x|^2 dx \right) u_x(L,t)+ \gamma u_{xt}(L,t) \right\} \bigl(u(L,t)-g\bigr)=0.\end{cases}NEWLINE\]NEWLINE All results are presented in systematic and self-contained manner, proofs being sufficiently detailed. The authors establish an existence result for the thermoviscoelastic degenerated contact problem. The nonlinear stress-strain relation has the form: \(\sigma=M (\int^L_0|u_x|^2 dx)u_x-\alpha\theta + \gamma u_{xt}\), where \(M\) is a function satisfying: \(M\in C^1((0, \infty))\cap C([0,\infty))\), \(M(s)\geq C|s|^p\).NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEMain result: For the first-order energy associated to the equation, the authors show that there exists a positive constant \(C\) such that the following estimate \(E(t)\leq C(E(0)) (1+t)^{-(p+2)/p} \) holds. Here \(p\) is a positive number which depends on nonlinear terms of the system.

Recommendations

Cites work

Cited in

(30)

This page was built for publication: The contact problem in thermoviscoelastic materials

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q5957166)