Hemivariational inequalities and fan-variational inequalities. New applications and results. (English) Zbl 0843.49006

Panagiotopoulos, P. D.

Atti Semin. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena 43, No. 1, 159-191 (1995).

The paper is devoted to study the dynamic hemivariational inequality problem consisting in finding \(u: [0, T]\to [H^1(\Omega)]^2\) with \(u'(t)\in U_{ad}\) and \(u''(t)\in [L^2(\Omega)]^2\) such that \[ (\rho u'', v- u')+ a(u, v- u')+ \sum_{i= 1, 2} \int_\Omega j^0_i(u_i', v_i- u_i') d\Omega\geq (f, v- u')+ \int_{\Gamma_F} F_i(v_i- u_i') d\Gamma, \forall v\in U_{ad} \] with the initial conditions \[ u_i= u_{0i},\quad u_i'= u_{1i}\quad\text{for} \quad x\in \Omega\quad\text{and} \quad t= 0, \] where the nonlinear and nonsmooth part is represented by the Clarke generalized gradient of locally Lipschitz functions \(j_i(\xi)= \int^\xi_0 \beta_i(\tau) d\tau\) with \(\beta_i\in L^1_{\text{loc}}(\mathbb{R})\), \(i= 1, 2\). The method employed has been next used to prove the existence of solutions to the problems describing the behavior of von Kármán plates and thermoelastic bodies with nonmonotone multivalued boundary conditions.
In the last part of the paper, a new type of variational inequality problems based on the notion of “fan” has been presented. Such an approach enables the consideration of a much wider class of nonmonotone multivalued laws in mechanics as shown in appropriate examples. The new derived fan-variational inequalities serve as an important mathematical tool in the formulation of variational theory of damage problems.

Reviewer: Z.Naniewicz (Warszawa)

MSC:

49J40	Variational inequalities
74K20	Plates
74A15	Thermodynamics in solid mechanics

Keywords:

thermoelasticity; hemivariational inequality; von Kármán plates; fan-variational inequalities