Elastic Contact Between a Cylindrical Surface and a Flat Surface - A non-Hertzian Model of Multi-asperity Contact

Rajendrakumar, PK and Biswas, SK (1996) Elastic Contact Between a Cylindrical Surface and a Flat Surface - A non-Hertzian Model of Multi-asperity Contact. In: Mechanics Research Communications, 23 (4). pp. 367-380.

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Abstract

Contact between curved rough bodies is an important engineering problem. The paper addresses the problem in its simplest form where a smooth rigid cylinder presses down an elastic half space bounded by a plane of uniformly spaced cylindrical asperities. Keeping the separation between the bodies unchanged the problem is inverted and solved using the method of complex variables. As the asperities deform as well as move as rigid bodies, contact lengths and positions develop non-symmetrically with respect to the initial axes of symmetry of the asperities. The resulting local contact pressures are non-Hertzian and the normal load for a given contact area is greater than that estimated using a priori Hertzian pressure profiles.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Mechanics Research Communications
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited:	03 Jan 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:33
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/9196

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