Module 2 : Solid bodies in contact with and without interactions
  Lecture 5 : Rigid flat punch
 

 

Frictionless punch

The boundary conditions:

constant,

(5.3)

In equation 4.30 we can substitute for as

(5.4)

Which results in the following expressions for the normal component of stress

(5.5)

The constant C is estimated by

      which gives

(5.6)

The pressure distribution is given as,

(5.7)

Equation (5.7) shows that the pressure reaches a theoretically infinite value at the edge of the punch