Abstract
We consider a quasistatic frictional contact problem between an elastic-viscoplastic body and an obstacle. The contact is modelled with normal damped response and a local friction law. The material is elastic-viscoplastic with two internal variables which may describe a temperature parameter and the damage of the contacting surface. We provide a variational formulation of the problem and prove the existence of a unique weak solution to the model. The proof is based on arguments of evolution equations with monotone operators, a classical existence and uniqueness result on parabolic inequalities and fixed point.
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