A Frictional Dynamic Thermal Contact Problem with Normal Compliance and Damage

Abstract

We study a class of non-clamped dynamical problems for visco-elastic materials, the contact condition is modeled by a normal compliance, with friction, damage and heat exchange. The weak formulation leads to a general system defined by a second-order quasi-variational evolution inequality on the displacement field coupled with a nonlinear evolutional inequality on temperature field and a parabolic variational inequality on the damage field. We present and establish an existence and uniqueness result of different fields, by using general results on evolution variational inequalities, with monotone operators and fixed point methods. Then, we present a fully discrete numerical scheme of approximation and derive an error estimate. Finally, various numerical computations are developed.