Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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800800 | Mechanics Research Communications | 2015 | 11 Pages |
•Stresses produced in a slightly compressible, finitely deformed half space under the action of a moving load have been studied.•The surface of the medium is irregular with parabolic type of irregularity.•The perturbation method is applied to find the displacement field.•The normal and the shear stresses have been obtained in closed form and discussed numerically by means of graphs.
The present paper has been framed to study the stresses produced on the rough surface of a slightly compressible, finitely deformed half space due to a normal moving load. The surface of the medium is irregular with parabolic type of irregularity. The perturbation method is applied to find the displacement field. The normal and shear stresses have been obtained in closed form and discussed numerically by means of figures. It has been observed that the shear stress developed at different depths below the surface depends on the irregularity depth, frictional coefficient and irregularity factor of the rough surface of the medium. Also, surface plots have been drawn to analyze the combined variation of non-dimensional stresses and irregularity factor against depth.