Integral Equations of the General Three-Dimensional Contact Problem of a Circular Stamp and a Half-Space
摘要
A three-dimensional mixed boundary-value problem of an isotropic homogeneous elastic half-space is considered. The boundary surface conditions employed are prescribed three displacements in the interior of a disc and zero traction components in the exterior of the disc. By expanding the stresses and displacements as Fourier series and applying the Hankel transform the problem is reduced to a system of three integral equations with the Weber–Schafheitlin kernels. The singularities of the solutions in the axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric cases are analyzed. The Wiener–Hopf method is used to map the system of integral equations into an order-3 vector Riemann–Hilbert problem. For two particular cases, a modified Westmann model problem and the Ressner–Sagoci problem, closed-form solutions are derived.