IRANIAN JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY-TRANSACTIONS OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, cilt.46, sa.4, ss.927-942, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
In this study, moving continuous and discontinuous contact problems of a layer were examined in the presence of body force. The unbonded layer was pressed to a rigid foundation by a rigid cylindrical punch that moved over the layer steadily. In the presence of body force, for the moving contact problem, the general stress and displacement expressions were derived using the theory of elasticity and Fourier integral transforms, without using the superposition technique. Through applying the boundary conditions of the problem, the singular integral equations in which the contact stresses and contact areas were unknown were obtained for both the continuous and discontinuous contact cases. The singular integral equations were solved numerically using the Gauss-Chebyshev integration formula. Numerical results for critical load, initial separation distance, the separation region, contact stress distributions under the punch and between the layer, and foundation were given for various dimensionless quantities.