CONTACT PROBLEM WITH ADHESION AND WEAR IN ELECTRO-VISCOELASTICITY WITH DAMAGE

Abstract

We consider a mathematical model which describes the dynamic process of con- tact between a piezoelectric body and two obstacles. The behavior of the material is modeled with a nonlinear electro-viscoelastic constitutive with law long memory and damage. The mechanical damage of the material, caused by excessive stess or strains, is described by a damage function whose evolution is modeled by an inclusion of parabolic type. The contact is modeled with adhesion and wear. The adhesion field, whose evolution is described by a first order differential equation. The evolution of the wear function is described with Ar- chard’s law. For the variational formulation of the contact problem, we present and prove the existence of a unique weak solution to the problem. The proof is based on arguments of time dependent variational inequalities, parabolic inequalities, differential equations and fixed point arguments.