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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810837103321

Autore

Kalker J. J.

Titolo

Three-dimensional elastic bodies in rolling contact / / J.J. Kalker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Science Business Media, B.V., , [1990]

©1990

ISBN

94-015-7889-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 1990.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXVI, 314 pages)

Collana

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications

Disciplina

620.105

Soggetti

Rolling contact

Elastic solids

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

1 The Rolling Contact Problem -- 2 Review -- 3 The Simplified Theory of Contact -- 4 Variational and Numerical Theory of Contact -- 5 Results -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendix A The basic equations of the linear theory of elasticity -- Appendix B Some notions of mathematical programming -- Appendix C Numerical calculation of the elastic field in a half-space -- Appendix D Three-dimensional viscoelastic bodies in steady state frictional rolling contact with generalisation to contact perturbations -- Appendix E Tables.  .

Sommario/riassunto

This book is intended for mechanicians, engineering mathematicians, and, generally for theoretically inclined mechanical engineers. It has its origin in my Master's Thesis (J 957), which I wrote under the supervision of Professor Dr. R. Timman of the Delft TH and Dr. Ir. A. D. de Pater of Netherlands Railways. I did not think that the surface of the problem had even been scratched, so I joined de Pater, who had by then become Professor in the Engineering Mechanics Lab. of the Delft TH, to write my Ph. D. Thesis on it. This thesis (1967) was weil received in railway circles, which is due more to de Pater's untiring promotion than to its merits. Still not satisfied, I feit that I needed more mathe­ matics, and I joined Professor Timman's group as an Associate Professor. This led to the present work. Many thanks are due to G. M. L. Gladwell, who thoroughly polished style and contents of the manuscript. Thanks are also due to my wife, herself an engineering



mathematician, who read the manuscript through critically, and made many helpful comments, to G. F. M. Braat, who also read an criticised, and, in addition, drew the figures together with J. Schonewille, to Ms. A. V. M. de Wit, Ms. M. den Boef, and Ms. P. c. Wilting, who typed the manuscript, and to the Publishers, who waited patiently. Delft-Rotterdam, 17 July 1990. J. J.