Calculation of Contact Pressures and Frictional Effects on Mechanical Contact Surfaces by Finite Element Methods with Application to Fretting Damage Prediction

: Contact stresses, contact forces, relative contact surface displacements, and the dissipative effects of friction are computed, by the finite element method, for various two- and three-dimensional contact problems. The finite element technique is verified by analysis of several two-dimensional frictionless contact problems; the Hertz contact of two cylinders, a rigid sleeve/elastic shaft shrinkfit, and an elastic sleeve/elastic shaft...