This work is concerned with the equilibrium configurations of elastic structures in contact with Coulomb friction. We obtain a variational formulation of this equilibrium problem. Then we propose sufficient conditions for the existence of an infinity of equilibrium configurations with arbitrary small friction coefficients. We illustrate the result in two space dimensions with a simple example.

We investigate a generalized class of fractional hemivariational inequalities involving the time-fractional aspect. The existence result is established by employing the Rothe method in conjunction with the surjectivity of multivalued pseudomonotone operators and the properties of the Clarke generalized gradient. We are also exploring a numerical approach to address the problem, utilizing both spatially semi-discrete and fully discrete finite elements, along with a discrete approximation of the fractional...