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Indentation Stress and Displacement Fields

Submitted by Jay Palaniappan on

I am looking for stress and displacement fields for indentation of an elastic half-space with a rigid spherical indenter. Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps provides closed form expressions (no derivations) for stress fields in his textbook "Introduction to Contact Mechanics" (Chapter 5, Page 88-89). He cites the work of M.T. Huber[1] which is in German (Annalen der Physik, 1904). 

Can someone point me to an English language reference for the analytical derivation of displacement and stress fields in the interior of the specimen ?

Implementing previous step output as input in the following step using Abaqus

Submitted by moonmoon on

Dear Abaqus Users,

Help is needed on how we can get the output displacement of some

certain nodes and implement them in a formula to become forces (from

each node results); and add this forces into their corresponding nodes

in the following new step, for multiple steps.

Thank you for your helping answers of any approaches and they are

really appreciated .

Thanks

Contact mechanics of rough surfaces: is Persson's theory better than Greenwood & Willamson?

Submitted by Mike Ciavarella on

A recent string of papers originated from Persson's paper in the physics literature contain a number of interesting new ideas, but compare, of the many theories for randomly rough surfaces, only Persson's and Bush et al, BGT. These papers often assume the original Greenwood and Williamson (GW) theory [1] to be inaccurate, but unfortunately do not test it, assuming BGT to be its better version. The original GW however is, I will show below, still the best paper and method today (not surprisingly, as not many papers have the level of 1300 citations), containing generally less assumptions than any other model, including the constitutive equation which does not need to be elastic! I just submitted this Letter to the Editor: On "Contact mechanics of real vs. randomly rough surfaces: A Green's function molecular dynamics study" by C. Campaña and M. H. Müser, EPL, 77 (2007) 38005. C. Campaña and M. H. Müser also make several questionable statements, including a dubious interpretation of their own results, and do not even cite the original GW paper; hence, we find useful to make some comments.