...Joseph M. Block; Leon M. Keer The normal contact of a frictionless elastic coated cylinder indented by a flat rigid surface is solved using a Michell–Fourier series expansion, which satisfies the mixed boundary value problem resulting from partial contact. The boundary conditions are chosen...

...Joseph M. Block; Leon M. Keer The normal contact of a frictionless, elastic curved beam indented by a flat, rigid surface is solved using a Michell–Fourier series expansion, which satisfies the mixed boundary value problem resulting from partial contact. When the contact region is small compared...

... bearings is optimized in a sense of enhancing the stability of the full circular bearing at high rotational speeds. A performance index is chosen as the sum of the squared whirl-frequency ratios over a wide range of eccentricity ratios, and a Fourier series is used to represent an arbitrary clearance...

... for the oil film. The Fourier series approximates the instantaneous temperature fields in the solid boundary layers. In this way, the mean heat flux that passes into the solid can be computed and a steady-state heat conduction equation can be used to obtain thermal fields inside the solids. Finally, solving...

... the squared values of the attitude-angles over a region of eccentricity. A Fourier series is used to represent an arbitrary clearance configuration of a bearing, and the problem is to find the Fourier coefficients to minimize the performance index. The problem is numerically solved by a kind of the conjugate...