We study the contact problems for elastic plates with a rigid inclusion. We consider the case of frictionless contact between the rigid part of the plate and a rigid obstacle. The contact is modeled with the Signorini-type nonpenetration condition. The deformation of the transversely isotropic elastic part of the plate is described by the Timoshenko model. We analyze the dependence of solutions to the contact problems on the size of rigid inclusion. The existence of a solution to the optimal control problem is proved. For that problem, the cost functional characterizes the deviation of the displacement vector from a given function, whereas the size parameter of rigid inclusion is chosen as the control function.MSC: Primary 74G55; 49J40; secondary 49J30

The equilibrium problem for a two-dimensional body with a crack is studied. We suppose that the body consists of two parts: an elastic part and a rigid thin stiffener on the outer edge of the body. Inequality-type boundary conditions are prescribed at the crack faces providing a non-penetration between the crack faces. For a family of variational problems, dependence of their solutions on the length of the thin rigid stiffener is investigated. It is shown that there exists a solution of an optimal control problem. For this problem, the cost functional is defined by a continuous functional on a solution space, while the length parameter serves as a control parameter.

The paper considers equilibrium models of Kirchhoff-Love plates with rigid inclusions of two types. The first type of inclusion is described by three-dimensional sets, the second one corresponds to a cylindrical rigid inclusion, which is perpendicular to the plate’s median plane in the initial state. For both models, we suppose that there is a through crack along a fixed part of the inclusion’s boundary. On the crack non-penetration conditions are prescribed which correspond to a certain known configuration bending near the crack. The uniqueness solvability of a new problems for a Kirchhoff-Love plate with a flat rigid inclusion is proved. It is proved that when a thickness parameter tends to zero, the problem for a flat rigid inclusion can be represented as a limiting task for a family of variational problems concerning the inclusions of the first type. A solvability of an optimal control problem with a control given by the size of inclusions is proved

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