Contact of a Smooth Flat Indenter on a Layered Elastic Half-Space: Beam on an Elastic Foundation Model

1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 855-857
Author(s):  
T. W. Shield
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Elastic Foundation ◽  
Elastic Half Space ◽  
Foundation Model

A concave indenter on a piezoelectromagneto-elastic substrate or a layer elastically supported

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 362-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bogdan Rogowski
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Elastic Foundation ◽  
Contact Region ◽  
Approximate Solutions ◽  
Elastic Half Space ◽  
Solution Technique ◽  
Elementary Functions ◽  
Full Field ◽  
Full Contact ◽  
Two Parameter

Indentation of piezoelectromagneto-elastic half-space or a layer on a two-parameter elastic foundation by a cylindrical indenter with a slightly concave base is considered. Full-field magnetoelectro-elastic solutions in elementary functions are obtained for the case of full contact and half-space. If the axial load is small, the contact area will be an annulus the outer circumference of which coincides with the edge of the punch. The inner circumference will shrink with increasing load and there will be a critical load above which the stratum makes contact with the entire punch base. The contact problem for high loads can therefore be treated by classical methods. The more interested case in which the load is less the critical value and the contact region is annulus remains. By use the methods of triple integral equations and series solution technique the solution for an indentured substrate over an annular contact region is also given. For parabolic and conical concave punches the exact or approximate solutions are obtained for full contact or annular contact region, respectively. For the layer on two-parameter elastic foundation and concave punch approximate solution is established.

Problems in calculating the flexure of beams on elastic foundation

1987 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 581-584 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dajun Ding
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Elastic Foundation ◽  
Elastic Characteristic ◽  
Elastic Half Space ◽  
Algebraic Equations ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Concentrated Loads ◽  
Dimensionless Coefficient ◽  
Loading Case ◽  
Beams On Elastic Foundation

This paper deals with some problems concerning the flexure of beams on an elastic half space. Based on the link method of Zemochkin, the author gives an improved method by which the number of simultaneous algebraic equations can be reduced by 2. Following the author's proposal, the universal tables of reaction coefficients for any loading case are compiled. The author has obtained dimensionless coefficients of reaction, shear, and moment between the infinite and semi-infinite beams subjected to concentrated loads and those under moments, so the coefficient tables of long beams under concentrated loads can be used for calculating those under moments. Key words: elastic foundation, settlement, half-plane and half-space, link method, pressure, segment, typical equation, matrix, dimensionless coefficient, long (infinite and semi-infinite) beam, finite beam (beam with finite length), elastic characteristic value.

The efficiency of application of virtual cross-sections method and hypotheses MELS in problems of wave signal propagation in elastic waveguides with rough surfaces

2016 ◽  
pp. 3564-3575 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ara Sergey Avetisyan
Keyword(s):  
Half Space ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Classical Method ◽  
Signal Propagation ◽  
Elastic Half Space ◽  
Layered Systems ◽  
Surface Layers ◽  
Inhomogeneous Surface ◽  
Wave Signal ◽  
The Impact

The efficiency of virtual cross sections method and MELS (Magneto Elastic Layered Systems) hypotheses application is shown on model problem about distribution of wave field in thin surface layers of waveguide when plane wave signal is propagating in it. The impact of surface non-smoothness on characteristics of propagation of high-frequency horizontally polarized wave signal in isotropic elastic half-space is studied. It is shown that the non-smoothness leads to strong distortion of the wave signal over the waveguide thickness and along wave signal propagation direction as well.  Numerical comparative analysis of change in amplitude and phase characteristics of obtained wave fields against roughness of weakly inhomogeneous surface of homogeneous elastic half-space surface is done by classical method and by proposed approach for different kind of non-smoothness.

Guided Surface Waves on an Elastic Half Space

1971 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 899-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. B. Freund
Keyword(s):  
Wave Propagation ◽  
Surface Wave ◽  
Surface Waves ◽  
Half Space ◽  
Body Wave ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Elastic Half Space ◽  
Normal Displacement ◽  
Rigid Barrier ◽  
Wave Disturbances

Three-dimensional wave propagation in an elastic half space is considered. The half space is traction free on half its boundary, while the remaining part of the boundary is free of shear traction and is constrained against normal displacement by a smooth, rigid barrier. A time-harmonic surface wave, traveling on the traction free part of the surface, is obliquely incident on the edge of the barrier. The amplitude and the phase of the resulting reflected surface wave are determined by means of Laplace transform methods and the Wiener-Hopf technique. Wave propagation in an elastic half space in contact with two rigid, smooth barriers is then considered. The barriers are arranged so that a strip on the surface of uniform width is traction free, which forms a wave guide for surface waves. Results of the surface wave reflection problem are then used to geometrically construct dispersion relations for the propagation of unattenuated guided surface waves in the guiding structure. The rate of decay of body wave disturbances, localized near the edges of the guide, is discussed.

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