Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-24T03:53:32.871Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On the dynamic behaviour of a thermoviscoelastic body in frictional contact with a rigid obstacle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

K. T. ANDREWS ,
K. L. KUTTLER  and
M. SHILLOR
K. T. ANDREWS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4401, USA
K. L. KUTTLER
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, USA
M. SHILLOR
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester, MI 48309-4401, USA
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

We consider the dynamic behaviour of a thermoviscoelastic body which may come into frictional contact with a rigid obstacle. The frictional contact is modelled by general contact and friction laws which include as special cases the power law normal compliance condition and the corresponding generalization of Coulomb's law of dry friction. The stress-strain constitutive relation is assumed to be of Kelvin-Voigt type and the frictional heat generation on the contact surface is taken into account. In this setting we establish the existence of a solution to a weak version of the energy-elasticity system which consists of a parabolic equation coupled with a variational inequality.

Type
Research Article
Information
European Journal of Applied Mathematics , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , August 1997 , pp. 417 - 436
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)