Research Article

Improved Pressure Distribution in Elliptic Elastic Contacts between High-Order Surfaces

Table 1

Formulas used to validate the predictions of the numerical program.

ā€‰Central Rigid-body Pressure
ā€‰pressure, approach, distribution

Forth order surface (30)(22) (14)
Sixth order surface (49) (38) (15)
Eighth order surface (73) (57) (16)