Analysis of a long-memory dependent piezoelectric unilateral contact problem with sliding Coulomb’s friction and wear effects
摘要
The current work discusses an interesting mathematical framework in contact mechanics that indicates the contact that occurs by friction between an electro-elastic body affected by long memory and wear, and a moving obstacle. Here, the contact phenomenon is represented by a normal compliance condition with a unilateral constraint, where the wear is taken into account. We derive its classical and variational formulations under some suitable hypotheses. Besides, by using a fixed point theorem and an abstract history-dependent variational inequality, the solution’s existence and uniqueness are confirmed. Additionally, due to the fully discrete approximation method, we derive error estimates and convergence results.