Fr. Spena, ON THE DYNAMICAL CONTACT BETWEEN A PLATE AND A UNILATERAL ELASTIC VISCOUS-DAMPED FOUNDATION, Nuovo cimento della Societa italiana di fisica. B, Relativity, classical and statistical physics, 108(11), 1993, pp. 1227-1242
The paper deals with the problem of the dynamical contact between an e
lastic Kirchhoff plate and a unilateral elastic, viscous-damped, hyste
retically damped foundation. After an introduction in which the curren
t state and technical implications concerning the problem are presente
d, the local form of equilibrium equation is given. Next the equivalen
t problem weak formulation in space and time is presented. Finally, pr
oofs about existence and uniqueness of problem solution are given.