Stress formulation for frictionless contact of an elastic-perfectly-plastic body

• Published in: Applicable analysis Vol. 83; no. 11; pp. 1157 - 1170
• Main Authors: Sofonea, Mircea, Renon, Nicolas, Shillor †, Meir
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group 01.11.2004
• Subjects: AMS Subject Classifications: 74C05; Differential inclusion; Perfectly plastic material; Qualistatic process; Unilateral frictionless contact; Weak solution
• ISSN: 0003-6811; 1563-504X
• DOI: 10.1080/00036810412331297235

A mathematical model for frictionless contact of a deformable body with a rigid moving obstacle is analyzed. The Prandtl-Reuss elastic-perfectly-plastic constitutive law is used to describe the material's behavior, and contact is modeled with a unilateral condition imposed on the surface veloci...