...Chul-Hee Lee; Andreas A. Polycarpou To analyze the contact between two spherical bodies with different radii of curvature, the three-dimensional (3D) Hertz theory for elliptical contact is typically used. When the two contacting bodies have high conformity, such as the case for ball-in-groove...

... , c ] , and the corresponding load, P b , is given by Eq. 1 , i.e., 3 P b = π c 2 2 A R with a corresponding normal traction distribution given by the usual Hertz recipe, i.e., 4 p ( x ) = − 2 P b π c 2 c 2 − x 2...