Winkler partial slip solution for harmonic oscillations in steady rolling contact problems

A Winkler model (Kalker's simplified theory) is adopted for solving analytically partial slip rolling contact problem in the first order perturbation form of small periodic oscillations of generally both normal and tangential load about a steady state. At present, only numerical investigations exist for this problem, with various approximations to deal with the transient effects (often, simply neglected), and particularly the effect of varying normal load and hence contact area, has not been investigated in detail, despite the problem of corrugation is essentially driven by the change of normal load. The linear perturbation analysis is used to obtain closed form expressions for the receptances of the tangential load. Also, similar expressions are obtained for the energy dissipation, which is correlated with the local wear.