Linear elastic contact of the Weierstrass profile

A contact problem is considered in which an elastic half-plane is pressed against a rigid fractally rough surface, whose profile is defined by a Weierstrass series. It is shown that no applied mean pressure is sufficiently large to ensure full contact and indeed there are not even any contact areas...

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Main Authors: Ciavarella, M. (Author), Demelio, G. (Author), Barber, J.R (Author), Jang, Y.H (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2000.
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