Analysis of non-overlapping models with a weighted infinite delay

The framework of this article is cell motility modeling. Approximating cells as rigid spheres we take into account for both non-penetration and adhesions forces. Adhesions are modeled as a memory-like microscopic elastic forces. This leads to a delayed and constrained vector valued system of equations. We prove that the solution of these equations converges when ε, the linkages turnover parameter, tends to zero to the a constrained model with friction. We discretize the problem and penalize the constraints to get an uncon?strained minimization problem. The well-posedness of the constrained problem is obtained by letting the penalty parameter to tend to zero. Energy estimates `a la De Giorgi are derived accounting for delay. Thanks to these estimates and the convexity of the constraints, we obtain compactness uniformly with respect to the discretisation step and ε, this is the mathematically involved part of the article. Considering that the characteristic bonds lifetime goes to zero, we recover a friction model comparable to [Venel et al, ESAIM, 2011] but under more realistic assumptions on the external load, this part being also one of the challenging aspects of the work