Abstract: This paper is concerned with the problem of contact between two dissimilar elastic cylinders. The cylinders are pressed together by a compressive force, P , and loaded by a tangential force, ...

Abstract: An algorithm based on a combination of the upper bound method and finite element repesentation has been developed. The algorithm is applied to the problem of a rigid indenter ploughing through ...

Abstract: The upper bound method is a convenient tool for evaluating the rate of work in processes involving predominantly plastic deformation of rigid/perfectly plastic material. Since the rate of work ...

Abstract: Upper bound applications traditionally assume that a rigid/perfectly-plastic material moves by rigid blocks, creating discontinuities of velocity at the interfaces between the blocks. In the present ...

Abstract: Algorithms developed by the authors in previous work (Azarkhin and Richmond, 1990; Azarkhin and Richmond, 1991) have been used here to model friction due to ploughing of rigid, adhesionless, ...

Abstract: We study the transient contact of two sliding bodies with a simple geometry. The model employs the Archard law of wear in which the rate of material removal is proportional to pressure and ...

Abstract: We study the time dependent problem of a nonconducting half-plane sliding on the surface of a conductor with heat generation at the interface due to friction. The conducting half-plane is ...