Impact is a complex phenomenon that occurs when two or more bodies undergo a collision.
This phenomenon is important in many different areas––machine design, robotics, multi …

Fretting fatigue is a fatigue damage process that occurs when two surfaces in contact with
each other are subjected to relative micro-slip, causing a reduced fatigue life with respect to …

The main interest of this study is in the fracture initiation in graded coatings under sliding
contact loading. The structural component under consideration is a metallic substrate …

The present paper examines two-dimensional contact of a rigid cylinder on an elastic
graded substrate. The normal, sliding and rolling type of contact are addressed. The effect of …

We develop two new continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction, and
discuss them in the context of existing models proposed in the literature. Our new models …

Recent advances by the authors in analytical methods for the analysis of plane fretting
fatigue (FF) contact problems are described, and new consequences for FF damage are …

A computational contact algorithm is presented to solve both the normal and tangential
contact problems that describe fretting contacts between two elastic half-spaces. The …

During fretting, the removal of material by wear leads to an increase of contact stress in the
stick zone. If elastic behavior is assumed, the boundary between stick and slip zones does …

An elastic contact model for three-dimensional layered or coated materials under coupled
normal and tangential loads, with consideration of partial slip effects, has been developed in …

Applying a heavy load to the rotor system of aero-engine can drastically reduce the stiffness
in rotor joints, which is called “non-continuity” of the rotor and can affect the joint dynamics …