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... , “ Estimation of the Tangential Stresses in the Stator/Rotor Contact of Travelling Wave Ultrasonic Motors Using Visco-Elastic Foundation Models ,” Second International Conference on Contact Mechanics, Contact Mechanics II , Ferrara, Italy, Computational Mechanics , Southhampton, Boston, MA , pp. 53 – 61...

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.... , 1997 , “ Half-Planes Without Coupling Under Contact Loading ,” Arch. Appl. Mech. 0939-1533 10.1007/s004190050115 , 67 , pp. 247 – 259 . elasticity integral equations mechanical contact Two-dimensional contact mechanics is a well-established area of mechanics with extensive...

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... friction mechanical contact BEM three-dimensional contact nonconforming discretizations After Andersen ( 1 ) published the paper on the BEM for two-dimensional contact problem, many papers have followed ( 2 3 4 5 6 7 ). The common characteristic in these papers is that they adopt...