A STUDY OF A VISCOELASTIC CONTACT PROBLEM
We give existence results for unilateral contact between a certain special case of a class of nonlinear viscoelastic bodies and a proposed harmonic deformable foundation under Tresca friction. The harmonic foundation is defined in terms of a subdifferential and incorporates in some limits the cases of a rigid foundation and a Winkler foundation. Our results are obtained using tools from the theories of nonlinear functional analysis and variational inequalities.