International Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences
Volume 23 (2000), Issue 12, Pages 865-871
doi:10.1155/S0161171200003215
On the numerical treatment of the contact problem
Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt
Received 13 April 1999
Copyright © 2000 Abdallah A. Badr. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The problem of the contact of two elastic bodies
of arbitrary shape with a kernel in the form of a logarithmic
function—which is investigated from Hertz problem—is reduced to
an integral equation. A numerical method is adapted to determine
the pressure between the two surfaces under certain conditions.