Convergence of coercive approximations for strictly monotone quasistatic models in inelastic deformation theory

This article studies coercive approximation procedures in the infinitesimal inelastic deformation theory. For quasistatic, strictly monotone, viscoplastic models using the energy method and the Young measures approach a convergence theorem in generalized Orlicz spaces is proved. The main step in the proof is a characterization of the weak limit of non-linear terms by the convergence in measure.