Contact problems for textured surfaces involving frictional effects

Abstract

This review is mainly concerned with investigations devoted to periodic contact problems involving frictional effects, which were carried out by scientists from the former Soviet Union and CIS countries. The following class of problems is considered: 2D and 3D problems of frictional sliding contact between elastic and viscoelastic bodies with regular relief; stick-slip contact of bodies with wavy and periodically grooved surfaces; thermoelastic interaction between bodies with regular relief with regard for frictional heating; sliding contact between a surface with regular relief and a viscoelastic layer bonded to a rigid or an elastic foundation; effect of adhesion or incompressible fluid in the gaps on contact parameters in sliding contact between a textured surface and a viscoelastic layer.