Steady sliding of a circular cylinder over a dissimilar thermally conducting half-plane

Abstract

The problem of a thermally conducting cylinder sliding steadily over the surface of an elastic half-plane with different thermal properties was analyzed. Appropriate Green's functions are used to reduce the problem to an integral equation which is solved numerically. Thermoelastic distortion due to frictional heating causes the contact patch to be smaller than that predicted for isothermal (Hertzian) contact although solutions assuming a single, perfectly conducting contact patch are not found for all values of parameters.