Modeling cracks and inclusions near surfaces under contact loading

• Main Authors: Zhou, Kun, Wei, Rongbing
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Half-space; Surface
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81808; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/40948
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In this work, a semi-analytic solution is developed for multiple cracks and inhomogeneous inclusions of arbitrary shape beneath a half-space surface subject to contact loading. The contacting surfaces can have roughness. The solution takes into account the interactions among all the inclusions and c...