Abstract: Many mechanical designs have parts that come into, or lose, contact with each other. When elastic bodies with second order surface geometries come into contact, the contact patch is expected ...

Abstract: Low and high speed impacts frequently occur in many mechanical processes. Although widely studied, rarely are normal and tangential force time-waveforms measured, as generally these are very ...

Abstract: A new solution method for the oblique elastic impact of similar spheres with Coulomb friction is presented. The solution uses approximations of the shear stress distributions at each time step ...