We study a model of interfacial crack between two bonded dissimilar linearized elastic media. The Coulomb friction law and non-penetration condition are assumed to hold on the whole crack surface. We define a weak formulation of the problem in the primal form and get the equivalent primal-dual formulation. Then we state the existence theorem of the solution. Further, by means of Goursat-Kolosov-Muskhelishvili stress functions we derive convergent expansions of the solution near the crack tip.

We study a mathematical model which describes the antiplane shear deformation of a cylinder in frictionless contact with a rigid foundation. The material is assumed to be electro-viscoelastic with long-term memory, and the friction is modeled with Tresca's law and the foundation is assumed to be electrically conductive. First we derive the classical variational formulation of the model which is given by a system coupling an evolutionary variational equality for the displacement field with a time-dependent...

A discrete model of the two-dimensional Signorini problem with Coulomb friction and a coefficient of friction $ℱ$ depending on the spatial variable is analysed. It is shown that a solution exists for any $ℱ$ and is globally unique if $ℱ$ is sufficiently small. The Lipschitz continuity of this unique solution as a function of $ℱ$ as well as a function of the load vector $f$ is obtained. Furthermore, local uniqueness of solutions for arbitrary $ℱ>0$ is studied. The question of existence of locally Lipschitz-continuous...

This paper deals with the formulation of a necessary optimality condition for a topology optimization problem for an elastic contact problem with Tresca friction. In the paper a quasistatic contact model is considered, rather than a stationary one used in the literature. The functional approximating the normal contact stress is chosen as the shape functional. The aim of the topology optimization problem considered is to find the optimal material distribution inside a design domain occupied by the...