Study of stress state of viscoelastic half-space in sliding contact with smooth indenter

Abstract

A method of calculating internal stresses in linearly viscoelastic bodies has been substantiated based on the solution to the contact problem of the sliding of a smooth indenter with friction against the boundary of a viscoelastic half-space. The effects of the coefficient of friction, Poisson’s ratio, and the velocity of sliding on the localization and the maximum values of tensile stresses, as well as maximum tangential stresses, have been analyzed.