Abstract

We consider here a frictionless contact problem for elastic-viscoplastic materials, in a quasi-static process. The contact with a rigid base is modeled without friction with condition of wear and damage. The damage the elastic deformations of the material is modeled by an internal variable of the body called the damage field. The problem formula is given as a system that includes a variational equation with respect to the displacement field, and a variational inequality of the parabolic type with respect to the damage field. We prove a weak solution existence and uniqueness theorem relating to the problem. The techniques employed are based on the theory of monotonic operators, followed by fixed point arguments.

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