Analysis and numeric of mixed approach for frictional contact problem in electro-elasticity

This work handle a mathematical model describing the process of contact between a piezoelectric body and rigid foundation. The behavior of the material is modeled with a electro-elastic constitutive law. The contact is formulated by Signorini conditions and Coulomb friction. A new decoupled mixed variational formulation is stated. Existence and uniqueness of the solution are proved using elements of the saddle point theory and a fixed point technique. To show the efficiency of our approach, we present a decomposition iterative method and its convergence is proved and some numerical tests are presented.