Regularization Methods and Finite Element Approximation o...
Ovcharova, Nina
In this thesis, we consider mechanical problems with nonmonotone contact, like adhesive problems, delamination problems, bilateral contact problems with nonmonotone friction law, nonmonotone unilateral contact, etc. In all of them the contact phenomena are described by nonmonotone and multivalued laws, which can be expressed by means of the Clarke subdifferential of a locally Lipschitz function called a nonconvex, nonsmooth superpotential. Pro...