A new class of differential quasivariational inequalities with an application to a quasistatic viscoelastic frictional contact problem

Abstract

The overarching goal of this paper is to introduce and investigate a new nonlinear system driven by a nonlinear differential equation, a history-dependent quasivariational inequality and a parabolic variational inequality in Banach spaces. Such a system can be used to model quasistatic frictional contact problems for viscoelastic materials with long memory, damage and wear. By using the Banach fixed point theorem, we prove an existence and uniqueness theorem of solution for such a system under some mild conditions. As a novel application, we obtain a unique solvability of a quasistatic viscoelastic frictional contact problem with long memory, damage and wear.