This is supposed to be a very classic analytical solution in applied elasticity. Forgive me if this is a repost or some correction has been made before. I had a hard time with it.
Problem statement: uniform pressure is applied on cirular area (radius=r) on top of a semi-infinite plane. Find the vertical deflection.
We got discrepancy between FEA solution and analytical solution which I found from different textbooks (famous and non-famous): Deflection within the circle is good, however, no good outside the circle.
We found the correct solution is attached.
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The following refs have typos in the solution of displacement (Uz) out of the circle.
Ref 1: Feriderich Ling, “Fundamentals of Surface Mechanics”, Springer, 2002
Ref 2: Anthony Fischer-Cripps, "Introduction to Contact Mechanics", Springer, 2000
Ref 3: K.L. Johnson, “Contact Mechanics” , Cambridge University Press, 1985
Ref 4: •Z.L. Xu, “Applied Elasticity”, Wiley, 1992
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