Abstract: In Part 1 of the present paper a minimum principle for the Coulomb-Amontons law of friction is derived. This minimum principle is uniform in the sense that no distinction is made between the ...

Abstract: A minimum principle for the law of dry friction was established in Part 1 of this paper. Here, in Part 2, the principle is applied to the nonsteady contact problem in which the traction ...

Abstract: Two-dimensional elastic half-space contact theory suffers from the defect that the surface displacement with respect to infinity becomes infinitely large when the total force carried by the half ...

Abstract: In the present paper, a numerical treatment is given of the problem of two elastic cylinders which are pressed together, shifted with respect to each other over a small distance without ...

Abstract: Two circular cylinders consisting of a rigid core which is covered by an arbitrary number of homogeneous, isotropic, viscoelastic coats of arbitrary, but uniform thickness are pressed together ...

Abstract: Frictionless rough contact problems have been studied in great detail by J. A. Greenwood and his co-workers. The only thing that actually seems missing is a simulated figure of the real contact ...

Abstract: A new method is described for the analysis of the contact between two bodies of linearly elastic materials in the absence of friction. No specific assumptions are made about the curvature of ...