Analysis of a dynamic contact problem for electro-viscoelastic cylinders

We consider a mathematical model which describes the antiplane shear deformations of a piezoelectric cylinder in frictional contact with a foundation. The process is mechanically dynamic and electrically static, the material behavior is described with a linearly electro-viscoelastic constitutive law, the contact is frictional and the foundation is assumed to be electrically conductive. Both the friction and the electrical conductivity condition on the contact surface are described with subdifferential boundary conditions. We derive a variational formulation of the problem which is of the form of a system coupling a second order hemivariational inequality for the displacement field with a time-dependent hemivariational inequality for the electric potential field. Then we prove the existence of a unique weak solution to the model. The proof is based on abstract results for second order evolutionary inclusions in Banach spaces. Finally, we present concrete examples of friction laws and electrical conductivity conditions for which our result is valid.     

Uniform stability of semilinear wave equations with arbitrary local memory effects versus frictional dampings

This paper is concerned with the mixed initial–boundary value problem for semilinear wave equations with complementary frictional dampings and memory effects. We successfully establish uniform exponential and polynomial decay rates for the solutions to this initial–boundary value problem under much weak conditions concerning memory effects. More specifically, we obtain the exponential and polynomial decay rates after removing the fundamental condition that the memory-effect region includes a part of the system boundary, while the condition is a necessity in the previous literature; moreover, for the polynomial decay rates we only assume minimal conditions on the memory kernel function g, without the usual assumption of $g^{\prime }$ controlled by g.     

A RELAXATION RESULT OF FUNCTIONALS IN THE SPACE SBD（Ω）

In this article,the authors obtain an integral representation for the relaxation of the functional
F（x,u,Ω）：={∫^f（x,u（x）,εu（x））dx Ω if u∈W^1,1（Ω,R^N）, ＋∞ otherwise, in the space of functions of bounded deformation,with respect to L^1-convergence.Here Eu represents the absolutely continuous part of the symmetrized distributional derivative Eu.f（x,p,ξ）satisfying weak convexity assumption.     

Boussinesq–Cerruti problems for the hexagonally symmetric system of elasticity in n–dimensional half-space

The Poisson matrices of the analoga to the Boussinesq–Cerruti boundary value problems for the operator of transversely isotropic elastostatics in n–dimensional half-space are computed by Fourier transformation and given in explicit form. (Received: May 4, 2004; revised: January 30, 2006)     

Weak solutions of the interior boundary value problems of plane Cosserat elasticity

In this paper we formulate interior Dirichlet and Neumann boundary value problems of plane Cosserat elasticity in Sobolev spaces, show that these problems are well-posed and find the corresponding weak solutions in the form of integral potentials. Received: April 7, 2005     

Similarity in soft set theory

We introduce and study the concept of similarity between soft sets, which is an extension of the equality for soft set theory. We also introduce the concepts of conjunction parameter (α∧β) and disjunction parameter (α∨β) of ordered pair parameter 〈α,β〉 for soft set theory, and we investigate modified operations of soft set theory in terms of ordered parameters.     

Mappings of finite distortion: Hausdorff measure of zero sets

We prove that a for a mapping f of finite distortion , the -Hausdorff measure of any point preimage is zero provided is integrable, with , and the multiplicity function of f is essentially bounded. As a consequence for we obtain that the mapping is then open and discrete. Received: 18 June 2001 / Revised version: 31 January 2002 / Published online: 27 June 2002     

Resolvent estimates in homogenisation of periodic problems of fractional elasticity

We provide operator-norm convergence estimates for solutions to a time-dependent equation of fractional elasticity in one spatial dimension, with rapidly oscillating coefficients that represent the material properties of a viscoelastic composite medium. Assuming periodicity in the coefficients, we prove operator-norm convergence estimates for an operator fibre decomposition obtained by applying to the original fractional elasticity problem the Fourier–Laplace transform in time and Gelfand transform in space. We obtain estimates on each fibre that are uniform in the quasimomentum of the decomposition and in the period of oscillations of the coefficients as well as quadratic with respect to the spectral variable. On the basis of these uniform estimates we derive operator-norm-type convergence estimates for the original fractional elasticity problem, for a class of sufficiently smooth densities of applied forces.