A Mathematical Model for Energy Harvesting: Two Piezoelectric Bodies in Mutual Contact with Friction
摘要
This paper investigates a contact and friction problem involving two electro-elastic bodies that interact with an electrically conductive foundation. The proposed model incorporates Signorini contact conditions with friction, non-homogeneous Neumann boundary conditions for non-contact zones and Robin boundary conditions for mechanical displacement. The resulting weak variational formulation is a system of nonlinear quasi-variational inequality and variational equality. The existence of solutions is established using fixed-point theory, and uniqueness is guaranteed under a smallness condition that relates the mechanical and electrical properties.