A class of dynamic frictional contact problems governed by a system of hemivariational inequalities in thermoviscoelasticity

Abstract: In this paper we prove the existence and uniqueness of the weak solution for a dynamic thermoviscoelastic problem which describes frictional contact between a body and a foundation. We employ the nonlinear constitutive viscoelastic law with a long-term memory, which include the thermal effects and consider the general nonmonotone and multivalued subdifferential boundary conditions for the contact, friction and heat flux. The model consists of the system of the hemivariational inequality of for the displacement and the parabolic hemivariational inequality for the temperature. The existence of solutions is proved by using recent results from the theory of hemivariational inequalities and a fixed point argument.