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

Distributed Normal and Tangential tractions (contd...)

Elastic displacements at the surface are deduced in the same way, by integrating over distance

(4.25)

Sometimes more useful information obtained by differentiating the surface displacements w.r.t.

 

 

 (4.26)

is the tangential component of strain and is the slope of deformation of the surface.