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Hertzian Contact Stresses
December 2011Nicholas LeCain
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• Overview• Hertzian Contact Stresses• Non-Hertzian Contact Stresses• Failure modes• Implications in Opto-Mechanics• Summary
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• Contact stresses– Stress developed from
two radii in contact– Stress
• σ=F/A• Force is constant• Area is infinitely small• Stress approaches infinity
– Deformation occurs until area is large enough to reduce stress to below elastic limit of parts.
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Overview
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Ball with no contact force Deformation Caused by Hertzian
Contact Stresses
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• Hendrick Hertz first published his work on contact stresses in 1881.
• Work was based on a few assumptions. – Frictionless – Elastic bodies– Isotropic materials– Homogeneous materials– No external shear stress
• Without these assumptions the equations get out of hand pretty quickly and an FEA approach to analysis is required.
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Hertzian Contact Stresses
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• Spherical Equations
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Hertzian Contact StressesSpherical Bodies
Radius of deformed contact area
Maximum pressure from force applied Note: For a flat surface R would equal
infinity and for a concave surface like a spherical hole R would be negative
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• Principle and Shear Stresses
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Hertzian Contact Stresses Spherical Bodies cont.
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• For Cylindrical contacts instead of a circular contact area an elliptical contact area is produced. The equations below cover this change.
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Hertzian Contact StressesCylindrical Bodies
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• Note: In the cylindrical case the principle stresses are not constant. For more detailed information on this see Mechanical Engineering Design, Shigley 2004
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Hertzian Contact StressesCylindrical Bodies cont.
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• Applications where the assumptions listed in the previous slide do not apply fall under Non-Hertzian contact stresses. – These applications must be handled with finite
element analysis or with the Smith-Liu equations
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• Permanent Plastic Deformation of parts• Fatigue damage
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Failure Modes
Fatigue damage on bearing.
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Plastic Deformation of Aluminum
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• Weight limits for kinematic mounts
• Design limits of Sharp Edge lens seats
• Point Contacts for mirror supports
• Point Contacts of micrometers
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Implications in Opto-Mechanics
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• Hertzian equations apply to contact stresses created by the contact of radii.
• Hertzian Equations work well if the stated above assumptions apply
• If there are exceptions to the assumptions FEA or more complicated equations must be used.
• In the field of opto-mechanics Hertzian equations work well for the analysis of Kinematic mounts and lens seats.
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SummaryOPTI 521 Optomechanical Engineering