TY - JOUR AU - AB - METHODS published: 28 August 2020 doi: 10.3389/fmech.2020.00061 FFT-Based Methods for Computational Contact Mechanics 1 1,2 1 1 3 Q. Jane Wang *, Linlin Sun , Xin Zhang , Shuangbiao Liu * and Dong Zhu Mechanical Engineering and Center for Surface Engineering and Tribology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2 3 United States, School of Mechanical Engineering, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China, Tri-Tech Solutions, Mt. Prospect, IL, United States Computational contact mechanics seeks for numerical solutions to contact area, pressure, deformation, and stresses, as well as flash temperature, in response to the interaction of two bodies. The materials of the bodies may be homogeneous or inhomogeneous, isotropic or anisotropic, layered or functionally graded, elastic, elastoplastic, or viscoelastic, and the physical interactions may be subjected to a single field or multiple fields. The contact geometry can be cylindrical, point (circular or elliptical), or nominally flat-to-flat. With reasonable simplifications, the mathematical nature of the relationship between a surface excitation and a body response for an elastic contact problem is either in the form of a convolution or correlation, making it possible to formulate and solve the contact problem by means of an efficient Fourier-transform algorithm. Green’s function inside such a convolution or correlation TI - FFT-Based Methods for Computational Contact Mechanics JF - Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering DO - 10.3389/fmech.2020.00061 DA - 2020-08-28 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/unpaywall/fft-based-methods-for-computational-contact-mechanics-UikMqaKDdR DP - DeepDyve ER -