Quasistatic Contact Problem with Friction for Threedimensional Elastic Bodies

摘要

Starting from the weak formulation of the contact problem, it is shown that in a number of technologically important cases, such as wheel-rail contact in railways and the contacts in roller bearings, the contact formation is independent of the tangential traction. Special algorithms have been developed for this case; they are fully reliable. Another algorithm dealing with more general contacts is still under development. The paper closes with a discussion of contact evolution, and notably steady state rolling is considered. (Copyright (c) 1987 by Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, Delft.)