Abstract
In this paper, the contact between an elastic-viscoplastic body and a deformable obstacle is studied. The effect of the damage, due to internal tension or compression and caused by the opening and growth of micro-cracks and micro-cavities, is also considered. The variational formulation leads to a coupled system of evolutionary equations. An existence and uniqueness result is established by using approximate problems, the pseudomonotone operators theory, Schauder fixed-point theorem and a comparison result.
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