Existence of solutions for time-dependent Signorini-type problems in linearised viscoelasticity

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Main Author: Piersanti, Paolo
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contents In this paper we establish the existence of solutions for a model describing the evolution of a linearly viscoelastic body which is constrained to remain confined in a prescribed half-space. The confinement condition under consideration is of Signorini type, and is given over the boundary of the linearly viscoelastic body under consideration. We show that one such variational problem admits solutions and we coin a novel concept of solution which, differently from the available literature, is valid even in the case where the viscoelastic body starts its motion in contact with the obstacle. Additionally, under additional assumptions on the constituting material, we show that when the applied body force is lifted the deformed linearly viscoelastic body returns to its rest position at an exponential rate of decay.
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spellingShingle Existence of solutions for time-dependent Signorini-type problems in linearised viscoelasticity
Piersanti, Paolo
Analysis of PDEs
In this paper we establish the existence of solutions for a model describing the evolution of a linearly viscoelastic body which is constrained to remain confined in a prescribed half-space. The confinement condition under consideration is of Signorini type, and is given over the boundary of the linearly viscoelastic body under consideration. We show that one such variational problem admits solutions and we coin a novel concept of solution which, differently from the available literature, is valid even in the case where the viscoelastic body starts its motion in contact with the obstacle. Additionally, under additional assumptions on the constituting material, we show that when the applied body force is lifted the deformed linearly viscoelastic body returns to its rest position at an exponential rate of decay.
title Existence of solutions for time-dependent Signorini-type problems in linearised viscoelasticity
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02619