Analysis of the tilted shallow wedge problem in couple-stress elasticity (Q2045082)

The authors consider the contact problem of a tilted rigid shallow wedge indenter pressed upon the surface of an elastic half-plane. They write the equilibrium equations and use Airy's function to end with the system \(\nabla ^{4}\Phi =0\), \(\nabla ^{2}\Psi -l^{2}\nabla ^{4}\Psi =0\). They apply Fourier transform and compute the solution of the derived pair of fourth-order differential equations. They finally draw computations with the inverse Fourier transform which end with singular integrals. The main part of the paper presents a numerical scheme based on the collocation method and the Gauss-Chebyshev quadrature. In the last part of their paper, the authors present the results of their numerical computations. They especially analyze the dependence of the solution with respect to different parameters of the problem.