Normal and tangential compliance for conforming binder contact I: Elastic binder

article engages the studies of normal and tangential conforming contact compliance for a system of two elastic particles bonded by a layer of elastic binder in between. The governing equatic’n of this problem is a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind with singularities of logarithmic type. The exact solution for the unknown interfacial pressure between particle and binder is difficult to obtain. Derivations of compliance are presented in the forms of the upper and lower bounds, and of the best estimate based on physical approximations. The results show that the derived elastic compliances agree favorably with those of ‘discretized exact solutions’ obtained from numerical methods. Copyright 0 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd.