A numerical elastic – plastic contact model for a half-space with inhomogeneous inclusions and cracks

• Main Authors: Yang, Jing, Wang, Xu, Zhou, Kun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Inhomogeneous Inclusions; Cracks
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/145831
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The elastic–plastic contact problem plays an important role in predicting the mechanical properties of materials. In this paper, a semi-analytic solution is developed to investigate the plastic behaviors of a half-space with inhomogeneous inclusions and cracks under contact loading. In this solution...