A 3-dimensional singular kernel problem in viscoelasticity: an existence result

DOI10.1478/AAPP.97S1A3arXiv1808.02411MaRDI QIDQ6305151FDOQ6305151

Publication date: 7 August 2018

Abstract: Materials with memory, namely those materials whose mechanical and/or thermodynamical behaviour depends on time not only via the present time, but also through its past history, are considered. Specifically, a three dimensional viscoelastic body is studied. Its mechanical behaviour is described via an integro-differential equation, whose kernel represents the relaxation modulus, characteristic of the viscoelastic material under investigation. According to the classical model, to guarantee the thermodynamical compatibility of the model itself, such a kernel satisfies regularity conditions which include the integrability of its time derivative. To adapt the model to a wider class of materials, this condition is relaxed; that is, conversely to what is generally assumed, no integrability condition is imposed on the time derivative of the relaxation modulus. Hence, the case of a relaxation modulus which is unbounded at the initial time t = 0, is considered, so that a singular kernel integro-differential equation, is studied. In this framework, the existence of a weak solution is proved in the case of a three dimensional singular kernel initial boundary value problem.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Integro-partial differential equations (45K05) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Linear constitutive equations for materials with memory (74D05) Existence of solutions of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H20)

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