Beschreibung:
The monograph represents an outcome of the cross-fertilization between nonlinear functional analysis and mathematical modelling, and demonstrates its application to solid and contact mechanics. Based on authors' results, it introduces a general fixed point principle and its application to various nonlinear problems in analysis and mechanics.
A Fixed Point Principle. Abstract Setting and Preliminary Applications. History-Dependent Operators. Displacement-Traction Problems in Solid Mechanics. Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities. Elements of Nonsmooth Analysis. Elliptic Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities. History-dependent Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities. Evolutionary Variational-Hemivariational Inequalities. Applications to Contact Mechanics. Static Contact Problems. Time-dependent and Quasistatic Contact Problems. Dynamic Contact Problems.