Contact problems with frictional heat generation are, as a rule, studied under idealized conditions of perfect thermal insulation of the surfaces of bodies outside the region of contact. We solve an axially symmetric contact problem of stationary thermoelasticity for semibounded bodies of revolution by taking into account the effect of convective cooling of the free surfaces. The problem is reduced to a system of Fredholm integral equations. An approximate solution of these equations is obtained in terms of simple analytic relations. We determine the conditions under which the influence of convective heat exchange on the level and distribution of contact stresses can be neglected.Contact problems of thermoelasticity with heat generation caused by the action of frictional forces are, as a rule, studied under the assumption of thermal insulation of the free surfaces of contacting bodies [1--4]. This hypothesis substantially simplifies the problems and their solutions but is far from the adequate description of the reality. The condition of convective cooling of the surfaces of contacting bodies by environments seems to be more realistic. Therefore, it is interesting to determine the conditions under which it is possible to neglect the effect of convective cooling in analyzing the characteristics of contact such as the area of contact, pressure, and temperature.A procedure that enables one to construct exact solutions of axially symmetric contact problems with convective heat exchange was suggested in [5]. The system of two integral equations is solved numerically. Unfortunately, due to a great number of the input parameters of the problem (more than 10), it is difficult to obtain a clear picture of the influence of the intensity of heat exchange between the bodies and environment within the framework of this approach.In the present work, we propose an approximate procedure that enables one to construct solutions of the problem in the form of simple engineering formulas convenient for practical applications with sufficiently high accuracy (the relative error never exceeds 5-8%).
Statement of the ProblemConsider two semibounded bodies of revolution coming in contact under the action of a normal force P applied to a disk of radius a and rotating about their common axis of symmetry with a constant angular velocity co. Frictional forces acting in the region of contact generate heat and, hence, increase the temperature of the bodies. Outside the region of contact, the process of heat exchange between the surfaces of the bodies and an environment obeys the Newton law.The problem reduces to the solution of the well-known equations of thermoelasticity and heat conduction [6] with the following boundary conditions in the cylindrical coordinate system r, z: ql + q2 =f~ r < a, z = 0,Franko L'viv State University.