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The elastic stresses produced by the indentation of the plane surface of a semi-infinite elastic solid by a rigid punch

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

J. W. Harding  and
I. N. Sneddon
J. W. Harding
Affiliation:
Scientific Research 1
I. N. Sneddon
Affiliation:
Armament Research Department Ministry of Supply
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During the course of some investigations on the distribution of stress in an elastic solid it was noticed by the senior author that a systematic application of the method of integral transforms to the problem of the indentation of the plane surface of a semi-infinite elastic solid by a rigid punch reduced the problem essentially to one of solving a pair of integral equations belonging to a class which has been studied by Titchmarsh and by Busbridge (4,5). This procedure allows one to obtain the solution for an arbitrary shape of punch by a general method which leads automatically to the solution and avoids the troublesome procedure, adopted by Love (2) in the case of a conical punch, of being obliged to guess appropriate combinations of solutions which will satisfy the prescribed boundary conditions in any special case. Moreover, it can easily be seen that an attempt to apply Love's method to more complicated shapes of punch will lead to considerable analytical difficulties.

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Research Article
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Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society , Volume 41 , Issue 1 , June 1945 , pp. 16 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge Philosophical Society 1945

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