Abstract
Chacha and Bensayah [Asymptotic modeling of a Coulomb frictional Signorini problem for the von Kármán plates, C. R. Mécanique 336 (2008), pp. 846–850] have studied the asymptotic modelling of Coulomb frictional unilateral contact problem between an elastic nonlinear von Kármán plate and a rigid obstacle. The main result obtained is that the leading term of the asymptotic expansion is characterized by a two-dimensional Signorini problem but without friction. In this article, we extend this study to the case of a shallow shell under generalized Marguerre-von Kármán conditions.