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Main Authors: Ballard, Patrick, Iurlano, Flaviana
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04863
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author Ballard, Patrick
Iurlano, Flaviana
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Iurlano, Flaviana
contents We formulate the quasi-static elastic contact problem with Coulomb friction in a very general setting, with possible jumps in time for both the load and the solution. Exploiting ideas originating in our recent paper [4], we exhibit an optimal condition on the magnitude of the friction coefficient under which we prove the existence of an absolutely continuous solution for arbitrary absolutely continuous loads in the case of the most general 2D problem. We provide examples showing that, when the condition is violated, spontaneous jumps in time of the solution may occur, even when the load varies absolutely continuously in time. We argue that these spontaneous jumps in time of the solution in the quasi-static problem reveal a transition of the process from a quasi-static nature to a dynamic nature, interpreted as the mathematical signature of the onset of friction-induced vibrations in the elastodynamic contact problem with dry friction.
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spellingShingle Transition from Continuous to Jumping Solutions in 2D Quasi-static Elastic Contact Problems with Coulomb Friction: the Mathematics Underlying the Onset of Brake Squeal
Ballard, Patrick
Iurlano, Flaviana
Analysis of PDEs
We formulate the quasi-static elastic contact problem with Coulomb friction in a very general setting, with possible jumps in time for both the load and the solution. Exploiting ideas originating in our recent paper [4], we exhibit an optimal condition on the magnitude of the friction coefficient under which we prove the existence of an absolutely continuous solution for arbitrary absolutely continuous loads in the case of the most general 2D problem. We provide examples showing that, when the condition is violated, spontaneous jumps in time of the solution may occur, even when the load varies absolutely continuously in time. We argue that these spontaneous jumps in time of the solution in the quasi-static problem reveal a transition of the process from a quasi-static nature to a dynamic nature, interpreted as the mathematical signature of the onset of friction-induced vibrations in the elastodynamic contact problem with dry friction.
title Transition from Continuous to Jumping Solutions in 2D Quasi-static Elastic Contact Problems with Coulomb Friction: the Mathematics Underlying the Onset of Brake Squeal
topic Analysis of PDEs
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.04863