Our work on rate-independent systems was stimulated by our search for evolutionary
material models for shape-memory alloys that are flexible enough to encompass nonlinear …

This work presents a survey of computational methods for adhesive contact focusing on
general continuum mechanical models for attractive interactions between solids that are …

This chapter reviews mathematical approaches to inelastic processes on the surfaces of
elastic bodies. We mostly consider a quasistatic and rateindependent evolution at small …

In this paper two models of damaged materials are presented. The first one describes a
structure composed by two adherents and an adhesive which is micro-cracked and subject …

Presented in this paper is a coupled damage model to predict the durability of concrete
elements strengthened by external bonding of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) plates. Both …

We study delamination of two elastic bodies glued together by an adhesive that can undergo
a unidirectional inelastic rate-independent process. The quasistatic delamination process is …

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a class of differential variational inequalities
involving a constraint set in Banach spaces. A well-posedness result for the inequality is …

In this study, we propose a model coupling damage of domains and damage of interfaces. A
predictive theory of continuum damage mechanics is developed within the framework of the …

Brittle Griffith-type delamination of compounds is deduced by means of Γ-convergence from
partial, isotropic damage of three-specimen-sandwich-structures by flattening the middle …

We address a model for adhesive unilateral frictionless Signorini-type contact between
bodies of heat-conductive viscoelastic material, in the linear Kelvin–Voigt rheology …