2024/10/28 by Emanuel Willert, Willert, Emanuel
Engineering · Computer Science · #Elasticity and Wave Propagation #Geotechnical and Geomechanical Engineering #Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.20979
Based on the superposition of incremental frictional surface tractions that, in the case of an incompressible elastic half-space, correspond to a rigid tangential translation of a circular contact domain, the stress and displacement fields in the surface are determined in closed analytic form for an elastic half-space under the action of a constant shear traction over a circular contact domain on the surface. The obtained exact solutions can serve as benchmarks for numerical models, or can be used for the deeper contact-mechanical analysis of adhesive sliding contacts of soft materials.