Contact interaction of prestressed annular punch and half-space

The article is devoted to the task of contact interaction of the pressure of a pre-stressed cylindrical annular punch on the half-space with initial (residual) stresses without friction. It is solved for the case of unequal roots of the characteristic equation. In general, the research was carried out for the theory of great initial (ultimate) deformations and two variants of the theory of small initial ones within the framework of linearized theory of elasticity with the elastic potential having any structure. It is assumed that the initial states of the elastic annular stamp and the elastic half-space remain homogeneous and equal. The study is carried out in the coordinates of the initial deformed state, which are interrelated with Lagrange coordinates (natural state). In addition, the influence of the annular stamp causes small perturbations of the basic elastic deformed state. It is assumed that the elastic annular stamp and the elastic half-space are made of different isotropic, transversal-isotropic or composite materials.

Vertical Action of a Concentric Multi-Annular Punch on a Transversely Isotropic Elastic Half-Space

In this paper, the response of a transversely isotropic half-space under the punch action of a set of rigid concentric annuli frictionless contacts is considered. By virtue of a compact potential representation and Hankel transforms, a set of ring-load Green’s functions for the axisymmetric equations of equilibrium are derived and shown to be expressible in terms of standard elliptic integrals. With the aid of a rigorous yet highly efficient numerical method, the integral equation is solved for the multi-interval singular mixed boundary value problem. Detailed solutions to illustrate the performance of the computational approach and the influence of the degree of anisotropy and contact conditions on the mechanics problem are presented.

Nonaxisymmetric Annular Punch Problem

A general formulation is given for the first time to the title problem. The method is based on the new results in potential theory obtained by the author earlier. The problem is reduced to a two-dimensional integral equation with an elementary kernel. Several specific examples are considered.