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This paper explores the analysis and numerical solution of a fourth-order history-dependent hemivariational inequality. The variational formulation is derived from a model describing an elastic plate in contact with a reactive obstacle, where the contact condition involves both the subdifferential of a nonconvex, nonsmooth function and a Volterra-type integral term. We discretize the continuous formulation using the left rectangle rule to handle the history-dependent operator, along with a Morley finite element method for spatial discretization. A priori error estimates for the fully discrete scheme are established, demonstrating optimal convergence. Numerical examples are provided to verify the theoretical findings.
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