Over the past several decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has advanced from a
technique used primarily for surface topography imaging to one capable of characterizing a …

Understanding the characteristics of material contact and lubrication at tribological interfaces
is of great importance to engineering researchers and machine designers. Traditionally …

A semi-analytical model is first presented that thoroughly examines stress distribution
patterns in inhomogeneous materials within a quarter space: a scenario of great significance …

The EHL model of tapered roller bearing considering free ends is established and the effect
of force on the large end is also considered. The free ends are constructed through the …

The rolling contact fatigue of gear surfaces in a heavy loader gearbox is investigated under
various working conditions using the critical plane-based multiaxial Fatemi–Socie criterion …

The edge effect in contact of an elastic quarter-space is numerically studied in this work. The
extension of Hetényi's approach of overlapping two elastic half-spaces is implemented in the …

A method for simulating fretting wear using the Modified Simplex Method for a contact
solution has been developed. The initial separation between two contacting bodies was …

Certain contact problems must be treated as three-dimensional (3D) axial periodic
problems, such as the contact of cylinders with rough surfaces and/or inhomogeneities in the …

This paper presents a semi-analytical method (SAM) to solve sliding finite-length space
contact problem with consideration of the effect of free end surface. The equation set based …

In this paper, a new algorithm to solve the elastic quarter-space, the eighth-space and the
finite-length-space contact problems is proposed. This corresponds to an extension of the …