Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps-Introduction To Contact Mechanics

Mechanical Engineering Series
Frederick F. Ling
Series Editor

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Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps

Introduction to
Contact Mechanics
With 93 Figures

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Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps
CSIRO
Bradfield Road, West Lindfield
Lindfield NSW 2070, Australia
Series Editor
Frederick F. LingErnest F. Gloyna Regents Chair
in Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1063, USA
and
William Howard Hart Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
Aeronautical Engineering and Mechanics
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY 12180-3590, USA

Consulting Editor
Iain Finnie
Department of Mechanical EngineeringUniversity of California
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Fischer-Cripps, Anthony C.
Introduction to contact mechanics / Anthony C. Fischer-Cripps.
p.
cm. — (Mechanical engineering series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-387-98914-5 (hc. : alk. paper)
1. Contact mechanics. I. Title. II. Series: Mechanical
engineeringseries (Berlin, Germany)
TA353.F57
2000
620.1—dc21
99-42671
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To Dianne, Raymond and Henry

Series Preface

Mechanical engineering, an engineering discipline forged and shaped by the
needs of the industrial revolution, is once again asked to do its substantial share
in the call for industrial renewal. The general call is urgent as we face profound
issues ofproductivity and competitiveness that require engineering solutions.
The Mechanical Engineering Series features graduate texts and research monographs intended to address the need for information in contemporary areas of
mechanical engineering.
The series is conceived as a comprehensive one that covers a broad range of
concentrations important to mechanical engineering graduate education and research.We are fortunate to have a distinguished roster of consulting editors on
the advisory board, each an expert in one of the areas of concentration. The
names of the consulting editors are listed on the facing page of this volume. The
areas of concentration are applied mechanics, biomechanics, computational mechanics, dynamic systems and control, energetics, mechanics of materials, processing,production systems, thermal science, and tribology.
Professor Finnie, the consulting editor for mechanics of materials, and I are
pleased to present Introduction to Contact Mechanics by Anthony C. FischerCripps.
Austin, Texas

Frederick F. Ling

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