Interfacial separation between elastic solids with randomly rough surfaces: Comparison between theory and numerical techniques

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 59, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2355-2369

  Almqvist, A ^a,b   Campana C ^c   Prodanov, N ^b,d   Persson, B N J ^b  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Contact mechanics; Elastic solids; Interfacial separation; Pressure distribution; Randomly rough surfaces

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; BOUSSINESQ EQUATIONS; CLASSICAL MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; CONTACT MECHANICS; CONTACT REGIONS; ELASTIC SOLIDS; HALF-SPACE; INTERFACIAL SEPARATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS TECHNIQUES; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; NUMERICAL TECHNIQUES; RANDOMLY ROUGH SURFACES;

DYNAMICS; ELASTIC WAVES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; SOLIDS; SURFACE MEASUREMENT;

SEPARATION;

EID: 80053576380     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2011.08.004     Document Type: Article

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