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Hertzian contact in the presence of a Mindlin force

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The smooth axisymmetric contact between a rigid spherical punch and an isotropic elastic halfspace is perturbed by an internally applied Mindlin force which is located along the axis of symmetry. The paper presents certain closed form solutions to this unilateral contact problem.

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  1. Dept of Civil Engineering, Carleton University, K1S 5B6, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

    A. P. S. Selvadurai

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Selvadurai, A.P.S. Hertzian contact in the presence of a Mindlin force. Z. angew. Math. Phys. 41, 865–874 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00945839

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