A frictionless contact problem for viscoelastic materials

We consider a mathematical model which describes the contact between a deformable body and an obstacle, the so-called foundation. The body is assumed to have a viscoelastic behavior that we model with the Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law. The contact is frictionless and is modeled with the well-known...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mikäel Barboteu, Weimin Han, Mircea Sofonea
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2002-01-01
Series:Journal of Applied Mathematics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/S1110757X02000219