Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2009
In this paper, we study the boundary-initial value problem for a linear elastic body ina bounded domain, when the body force depends on the displacement vector u in asublinear way.
Recently, much attention has been given to nonlinear body forces not only to studythe fundamental solutions of the equations governing linear elastodynamics, see e.g.Kecs [3], but also to derive global non existence results in abstract problems with directapplications to nonlinear heat diffusion or to the nonlinear wave equation, see e.g. Ball[1], Levine and Payne [10].