NORMAL AND TANGENTIAL COMPLIANCE FOR CONFORMING BINDER CONTACT .2. VISCOELASTIC BINDER

This article extends the previously derived elastic solutions to visco -elastic solutions of normal and tangential compliances for a system c omprised of two elastic particles bonded by a thin layer of visco-elas tic binder. Rate dependent compliances are derived for both Maxwell an d Voigt visco-elastic binders. Similar to the elastic particle-binder system, the time-dependent governing equation of this problem is also a Fredholm integral equation of the second kind. We employ the monoton ical property of the kernel function to obtain the upper and lower bou nds for the rate-dependent compliance relationship. Guided from the up per and lower bound solutions, we derive the best estimated solution b ased on physically consistent approximations. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsev ier Science Ltd.