Spatial contact problems for a prestressed incompressible elastic layer

Abstract

Two problems are considered on frictionless indentation of a stamp into the upper face of a layer with a homogeneous field of initial stresses present in the layer. The model of an isotropic incompressible nonlinearly-elastic material determined by the Mooney potential is used. The following two cases are studied: the lower face of the prestressed layer is rigidly fixed, and the lower face of a prestressed layer is supported by a rigid foundation without friction. It is assumed that the additional stresses due to the action of the stamp on the layer are small as compared with the initial stresses. This assumption makes it possible to linearize the problems of determining the additional stresses. In what follows, the problems are reduced to solving two-dimensional integral equations (IE) of the first kind with symmetric irregular kernels with respect to the pressure in the contact region. As an example, the case of an elliptic (in plan) stamp acting on a layer is considered. The spatial contact problem for a prestressed elastic half-space was first considered in [1].