Frictionless Contact on Elastic Half Plane with Influence of Surface and Couple Stresses

Abstract:

In this paper, a frictionless contact of a rigid flat-ended indentor on a linear elastic half plane is investigated by taking the influence of surface and couple stresses into account. The surface elasticity and couple stress theories are utilized to form a mathematical model. The Green’s function method together with the equilibrium condition of the indentor is employed to formulate the key equations governing the contact pressure. A collocation technique and a set of available fundamental solutions of a half plane under the surface loading are adopted to determine the unknown contact pressure. Results from a numerical study reveal that the presence of both surface and couple stresses significantly alters the distribution of the contact pressure from that predicted by the classical linear elasticity, and the size-dependent characteristics of predicted solutions are obviously observed when the contact width is comparable to the internal length scales of the surface and bulk materials.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 897)
• Pages: 73-77
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.897.73
• Online since: April 2020
• Authors: Toan Minh Le, Tinh Quoc Bui, Jintara Lawongkerd, Suchart Limkatanyu, Jaroon Rungamornrat*
• Keywords: Couple Stresses, Flat-Ended Indentor, Frictionless Contact, Half-Plane, Surface Stresses

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