Abstract

This article addresses an analysis of the non-coercive boundary value problem describing an equilibrium state of two contacting elastic bodies connected by a thin elastic inclusion. Nonlinear conditions of inequality type are imposed at the joint boundary of the bodies providing a mutual non-penetration. As for conditions at the external boundary, they are Neumann type and imply the non-coercivity of the problem. Assuming that external forces satisfy suitable conditions, a solution existence of the problem analysed is proved. Passages to limits are justified as the rigidity parameters of the inclusion and the elastic body tend to infinity.This article is part of the theme issue 'Non-smooth variational problems with applications in mechanics'.

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