Optimal control for a class of mechanical thermoviscoelastic frictional contact problems

We study optimal control of systems governed by a coupled system of hemivariational inequalities, modeling a dynamic thermoviscoelastic problem, which describes frictional contact between a body and a foundation. We employ the Kelvin-Voigt vis-coelastic law, include the thermal effects and consider the general nonmonotone and multivalued subdifferential boundary conditions. We consider optimal control problem for boundary and distributed parameter control systems, time optimal control problem and maximum stay control problem. We deliver conditions that guarantee the existence of optimal solutions.