Overview
- Presents complex information in an accessible style
- Supports assertions with specific proofs
- Addresses abstract results on variational and quasi-variational inequalities
Part of the book series: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics (AMMA, volume 31)
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Variational Inequalities and Frictional Contact Problems contains a carefully selected collection of results on elliptic and evolutionary quasi-variational inequalities including existence, uniqueness, regularity, dual formulations, numerical approximations and error estimates ones. By using a wide range of methods and arguments, the results are presented in a constructive way, with clarity and well justified proofs. This approach makes the subjects accessible to mathematicians and applied mathematicians. Moreover, this part of the book can be used as an excellent background for the investigation of more general classes of variational inequalities. The abstract variational inequalities considered in this book cover the variational formulations of many static and quasi-static contact problems. Based on these abstract results, in the last part of the book, certain static and quasi-static frictional contact problems in elasticity are studied in an almost exhaustive way. The readers will find a systematic and unified exposition on classical, variational and dual formulations, existence, uniqueness and regularity results, finite element approximations and related optimal control problems. This part of the book is an update of the Signorini problem with nonlocal Coulomb friction, a problem little studied and with few results in the literature. Also, in the quasi-static case, a control problem governed by a bilateral contact problem is studied. Despite the theoretical nature of the presented results, the book provides a background for the numerical analysis of contact problems.
The materials presented are accessible to both graduate/under graduate students and to researchers in applied mathematics, mechanics, and engineering. The obtained results have numerous applications in mechanics, engineering and geophysics. The book contains a good amount of original results which, in this unified form, cannot be found anywhere else.
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Preliminaries
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Variational Inequalities
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Contact Problems with Friction in Elasticity
Reviews
“This important book is unique in that it presents a profound mathematical analysis of general contact problems. … The monograph is written in an accessible and self-contained manner. It will be of interest to research mathematicians and science engineers working in solid and fluid mechanics and in optimization theory of partial differential equations. Moreover, it is suitable as a textbook for graduate courses in optimization of elliptic systems.” (Ján Lovíšek, Mathematical Reviews, April, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Variational Inequalities and Frictional Contact Problems
Authors: Anca Capatina
Series Title: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10163-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-10162-0Published: 26 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35735-5Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10163-7Published: 16 September 2014
Series ISSN: 1571-8689
Series E-ISSN: 1876-9896
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 235
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology), Differential Geometry, Mathematical and Computational Engineering