Module 2 : Solid bodies in contact with and without interactions
  Lecture 4 : Loading on an elastic half space
 

Concentrated normal force (contd...)

Integrating the strain components, one can obtain the following solutions for the displacements.

(4.15)

If the points along the axis displaces only along the axis, then from the relation of , .

At the surface, where ,

(4.16a)

and

(4.16b)

Where is a constant which can be obtained by choosing a point on the surface at a distance , where normal displacements is zero. Then we have.

(4.17)

Transforming the expressions for radial stress distributions into rectangular coordinates, we have

(4.18)