This document may be downloaded, read, stored and printed for your own use within the limits of § 53 UrhG but it may not be distributed via the internet or passed on to external parties.Dieses Dokument darf im Rahmen von § 53 UrhG zum eigenen Gebrauch kostenfrei heruntergeladen, gelesen, gespeichert und ausgedruckt, aber nicht im Internet bereitgestellt oder an Außenstehende weitergegeben werden.Alphonse, AmalHintermüller, MichaelRautenberg, Carlos N.2018-04-162019-06-2820182198-5855https://doi.org/10.34657/2231https://oa.tib.eu/renate/handle/123456789/3117The directional differentiability of the solution map of obstacle type quasi-variational inequalities (QVIs) with respect to perturbations on the forcing term is studied. The classical result of Mignot is then extended to the quasi-variational case under assumptions that allow multiple solutions of the QVI. The proof involves selection procedures for the solution set and represents the directional derivative as the limit of a monotonic sequence of directional derivatives associated to specific variational inequalities. Additionally, estimates on the coincidence set and several simplifications under higher regularity are studied. The theory is illustrated by a detailed study of an application to thermoforming comprising of modelling, analysis and some numerical experiments.application/pdfeng510Quasi-variational inequalityobstacle problemstate constraintconical derivativedirectional differentiabilitythermoformingDirectional differentiability for elliptic quasi-variational inequalities of obstacle typeReport