Friction Effects on the Edge-of-Contact Stresses for Sliding Contact Between a Flat Punch With Rounded Corners and a Half Space

For the title problem, the punch is assumed to be pressed vertically into the horizontal upper surface of the half space, then slide horizontally sideways. A range of such configurations is identified that permit Shtaerman's solution for the contact pressure for a rigid frictionless punch to be modified so that it applies to a deformable punch and also yields the contact stresses when the punch slides in the presence of friction. Closed-form expressions are obtained for the peak edge-of-contact stresses. These edge-of-contact stresses can fluctuate significantly with even modest amounts of sliding.