Affiliation:
1. Institute of Mechanics, Technische Universität Berlin, Sekretariat C8-4, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Germany
Abstract
Based on a potential theoretical approach, the subsurface stress field is calculated for an elastic half-space which is subject to normal and uniaxial tangential surface tractions that—in the case of elastic decoupling—correspond to rigid normal and tangential translations of a circular surface domain. The stress fields are obtained explicitly and in closed form as the imaginary parts of compact complex-valued expressions. The stress state in the surface and on the central axis are considered in detail. As, within specific approximations that have been discussed at length in the literature, any tangential contact problem with friction can be understood as a certain incremental series of such rigid translations, the solutions presented here can serve as the basis of very fast superposition algorithms for the analysis of subsurface stress fields in general tangential contact problems with friction. This idea is demonstrated by means of the frictional tangential contact between an elastic half-space and a rigid cylindrical flat punch with rounded corners.
Funder
German Research Foundation
Open Access Publication Fund of TU Berlin
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