A contact problem for an elastic plate with a thin rigid inclusion

An equilibrium problem for a plate under the influence of external forces is investigated. It is assumed that the plate contains a thin rigid inclusion that reaches the boundary under zero angle and is in partial contact with an undeformable solid. There is a delamination at one of the faces of the inclusion. A complete Kirchhoff–Love model is considered, where the unknown functions are the vertical and horizontal displacements of the points of the middle surface of the plate. We give a differential statement and a variational statement of the problem and prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution.