A numerical method for solving rough contact problems based on the multi-level multi-summation and conjugate gradient techniques

Wear

Volumn 231, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 206-219

  Polonsky, I A ^a   Keer, L M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Conjugate gradient techniques; Multi level multi summation; Rough contact problems

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRICTION; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; STRESSES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; SURFACES;

CONJUGATE GRADIENT METHOD; MULTI LEVEL MULTI SUMMATION ALGORITHM; ROUGH CONTACT PROBLEMS; SINGLE LOOP ITERATION SCHEME;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

CONTACT; MATHEMATICAL METHOD; ROUGHNESS; WEAR;

EID: 0032871729     PISSN: 00431648     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0043-1648(99)00113-1     Document Type: Article

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