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jyvikoandClaude Opus 5.5 227c4544ed solver: mortar contact in 2D models
Plane strain, plane stress and axisymmetric models take contact pairs and
general (self) contact on the linear edges of tri3 and quad4 elements:
edges oriented out of their elements, the edge mortar of fem with the
thickness or 2 pi r in the weights, the element's area over the edge's
length as the thickness under it, and the in-plane rows of the tangent
blocks. Verified by the contact patch test in plane strain and
axisymmetric (to 1e-9 small sliding, 1e-4 finite), Hertz's line contact
on quad4 edges (Johnson 1985, 4.3; equal to the hex8 model's to 1e-5),
and a hybrid rubber C-ring closing on itself that moves node for node as
the one-layer solid ring.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01UhhZMBTviDQxZvwnyP89fo
2026-10-14 16:30:44 -04:00

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{
"title": "Hertz line contact: a cylinder pressed on a flat (implicit mortar contact of 2D edges, plane strain)",
"kind": "theory",
"source": "H. Hertz, Über die Berührung fester elastischer Körper, J. reine angew. Math. 92:156–171, 1882; K. L. Johnson, Contact Mechanics, Cambridge University Press 1985, §4.3 (two-dimensional contact of cylindrical bodies, eqs. 4.45–4.49): b = √(4PR/(πE*)), p₀ = 2P/(πb), with 1/E* = 2(1 − ν²)/E for two bodies of one material and R the cylinder's radius on a flat",
"quantities": [
{
"id": "peak_pressure",
"quantity": "the largest contact pressure p₀ (at x = 0)",
"measure": {
"from": "solve",
"pointer": "/contacts/0/max_pressure/value"
},
"value": 2884.6153846153843,
"tolerance": {
"relative": 0.02
},
"reason": "p₀ = 2P/(πb) for the load per length P = 2265.57 N/mm, b = 0.5 mm; the contact width spans seven elements of the graded mesh"
},
{
"id": "normal_force",
"quantity": "the force across the contact (half model, 1 mm thick)",
"measure": {
"from": "solve",
"pointer": "/contacts/0/normal_force"
},
"value": 1132.7858125924733,
"tolerance": {
"relative": 0.002
},
"reason": "the pressure carries the whole load; the soft springs that hold the indenter before contact take a millionth"
},
{
"id": "pressure_x0296",
"quantity": "the contact pressure at the secondary node at x = 0.29594",
"measure": {
"command": "solve.probe",
"params": {
"step": "Press",
"at": [
[
0.29594,
0.00438,
0.0
]
]
},
"pointer": "/nodes/0/contact/0/pressure"
},
"value": 2325.066800691437,
"tolerance": {
"relative": 0.05
},
"reason": "p₀ √(1 − x²/b²) at the node; the nodal pressure (the node's normal force over the area it carries) averages the distribution over the node's elements"
},
{
"id": "pressure_x0367",
"quantity": "the contact pressure at the secondary node at x = 0.36701",
"measure": {
"command": "solve.probe",
"params": {
"step": "Press",
"at": [
[
0.36701,
0.006737,
0.0
]
]
},
"pointer": "/nodes/0/contact/0/pressure"
},
"value": 1959.0164149439815,
"tolerance": {
"relative": 0.1
},
"reason": "as at node 7, nearer the edge, where the elements round off the square-root fall of the pressure to zero at b"
},
{
"id": "pressure_x0633",
"quantity": "the contact pressure at the secondary node at x = 0.63325 (beyond the half-width b = 0.5)",
"measure": {
"command": "solve.probe",
"params": {
"step": "Press",
"at": [
[
0.63325,
0.02007,
0.0
]
]
},
"pointer": "/nodes/0/contact/0/pressure"
},
"value": 0.0,
"tolerance": {
"absolute": 1.0
},
"reason": "outside the contact the surfaces are apart: no pressure (an element beyond b, since the edge element carries part of the last closed node's pressure)"
},
{
"id": "syy_depth",
"quantity": "the vertical stress σ_yy under the centre of contact at depth 0.47127",
"measure": {
"command": "solve.probe",
"params": {
"step": "Press",
"at": [
[
0.0,
-0.47127,
0.0
]
]
},
"pointer": "/nodes/0/stress/1"
},
"value": -2099.1580228637245,
"tolerance": {
"relative": 0.04
},
"reason": "σ_z = −p₀ / √(1 + z²/b²) on the axis of a half-plane (Johnson 1985, eq. 4.49); the foundation is ten half-widths wide and deep, not a half-plane, and the stress is the nodal average of the elements around the node"
}
]
}