Today, nonhomogeneous materials are used in many technological applications. Nonhomogeneity can be introduced intentionally in order to improve the thermomechanical performance of material systems. The concept of functionally graded materials (FGMs) is an example of such an application. Nonhomogeneity can also be an intrinsic property of some of the natural materials such as natural soil. The main interest in this study is on the contact mechanics of nonhomogeneous surfaces. There is an extensive volume of literature on the contact mechanics of nonhomogeneous materials. In most of these studies, the elastic gradation is assumed to exist in depth direction. But, it is known that elastic gradation may also exist laterally. This may either occur naturally as in the case of natural soil or may be induced as a result of the applied processing technique as in the case of FGMs. The main objective in this study is therefore to examine the effect of the lateral nonhomogeneities on the contact stress distribution at the surface of an elastically graded material. In the model developed to examine this problem, a laterally graded surface is assumed to be in sliding contact with a rigid stamp of arbitrary profile. The problem is formulated using the theory of elasticity and reduced to a singular integral equation. The integral equation is solved numerically using a collocation
approach. By carrying out parametric studies, the effects of the nonhomogeneity constants, coefficient of friction and stamp location on the contact stress distribution and on the required contact forces are studied.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/1225119/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 January 2003 |
| Creators | Ozatas, Cihan A. |
| Contributors | Das, Serkan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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