Abstract

In this paper we consider a mathematical model describing a quasistatic frictional contact problem between a deformable body and an obstacle, say a foundation. We assume that the behavior of the material is described by a linear electro-elastic constitutive law with long memory. The contact is modeled with a version of Coulomb's law of dry friction in which the normal stress is prescribed on the contact surface. Moreover, we consider a slip dependent coefficient of friction. We derive a variational formulation for the model, in the form of a coupled system for the displacements and the electric potential. Under a less assumption on the coefficient of friction, we prove the existence result of weak solutions of the model. We can show the uniqueness of solution by adding another condition (3.10). The proofs are based on arguments of time-dependent variational inequalities, differential equations and Banach fixed point theorem.

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