A fast and efficient contact algorithm for fretting problems applied to fretting modes I, II and III

A computational contact algorithm is presented to solve both the normal and tangential contact problems that describe fretting contacts between two elastic half-spaces. The coupling between the normal and tangential contact problems can or not be taken into account. Nevertheless the coupling should be introduced when materials are dissimilar. Fast and efficient methods are used. The contact solver is based on a conjugate gradient method and acceleration techniques based on the Fast Fourier transforms (FFT) are employed. Very good agreements are found with analytical solutions of three fretting examples representing each fretting mode. However it is shown that these analytical solutions are based on approximations that can be too strong when materials are dissimilar. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.