Adhesive Contact to a Coated Elastic Substrate
Classical Physics
2009-11-13 v1
Abstract
We show how the quasi-analytic method developed to solve linear elastic contacts to coated substrates (Perriot A. and Barthel E. {\em J. Mat. Res.}, {\bf 2004}, {\em 19}, 600) may be extended to adhesive contacts. Substrate inhomogeneity lifts accidental degeneracies and highlights the general structure of the adhesive contact theory. We explicit the variation of the contact variables due to substrate inhomogeneity. The relation to other approaches based on Finite Element analysis is discussed.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0701180,
title = {Adhesive Contact to a Coated Elastic Substrate},
author = {Etienne Barthel and Antoine Perriot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0701180},
year = {2009}
}