Sliding of general frictional complete contacts

• Main Authors: S., Karuppanan, D.A., Hills
• Format: Citation Index Journal
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utp.edu.my/283/1/paper.pdf; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-55349132325&partnerID=40&md5=81154f190d1d0f5dfef0708a97542c7a; http://eprints.utp.edu.my/283/

The interfacial contact pressure distribution beneath a complete sliding contact between elastically similar components, in the presence of friction, has been studied, with particular reference to contacts whose edge angles are 60°, 90° and 120°. The possible types of behaviour at the edge of contacts, namely power order singularity, power order bounded and square-root bounded, are discussed. The details of the behaviour require a detailed study of a characteristic equation and this shows that the kinds of pressure distribution to be anticipated, which can vary very markedly. © 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.