Abstract
A method is described for finding the contact pressures and surface displacements of a semiinfinite elastic solid, indented by a rigid, heated punch. The problem is reduced to an equivalent isothermal problem by finding the surface displacements due to temperature changes alone, making use of various properties of the point source solution, and superposing these on the initial profile of the solid. The analysis is greatly simplified if the system is axisymmetric or contains axisymmetric regions. The method is illustrated by an example.
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