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The compliance contact model of cylindrical joints with clearances

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This paper is concerned with the determination of the normal force-displacement (NFD) relation for the contact problem of cylindrical joints with clearance. A simple formulation for this contact problem is developed by modeling the pin as a rigid wedge and the elastic plate as a simple Winkler elastic foundation. The numerical results show that the normal displacement relation based on Hertz theory is only valid for the case of large clearance with a small normal load, and the NFD relation based on Persson theory is only effective in the case of very small clearance. The proposed approximate model in this paper gives better results than Hertz theory and Persson theory in a large range of clearances as seen from the comparison with the results of FEM.

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  1. Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science, State Key Laboratory of Turbulence and Complex Systems, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China

    Caishan Liu & Ke Zhang

  2. Chinese Academe of Space Technology, Beijing, 100086, China

    Lei Yang

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The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of (10272002; 60334030). The English text was polished by Keren Wang.

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Liu, C., Zhang, K. & Yang, L. The compliance contact model of cylindrical joints with clearances. ACTA MECH SINICA 21, 451–458 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-005-0061-7

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