Elastic-Plastic Contact Analysis of a Deformable Sphere and a Rigid Flat with Friction Effect

Abstract

Elastic-plastic deformation analysis of the deformable sphere and the rigid plane was studied using the finite element software,this paper was focused on the impact of the friction effects on the deformation of the elastic-plastic deformation under considering the material strain stiffening properties,studies have shown that，the strain stiffening feature increases the contact load while reducing the contact area，the friction effect reduce both the contact load and contact area during elastic-plastic deformation process of the deformable sphere with increasing contact interference.