Application of a contact model due to L. A. galin to problems of contact interaction between stringers and massive deformable bodies

Abstract

L. A. Galin’s contact model for a narrow beam bending on an elastic half-space and Melan’s contact model for a stringer are used to consider two problems of contact interaction between one or two identical symmetrically loaded stringers with small rectangular cross-sections and an elastic half-space. The basic characteristics of these problems are expressed by explicit formulas, and the results of their numerical analysis are given as well.