Publications on Contact/ Indentation
- R. C. Batra, Rubber Covered Rolls, The Nonlinear Elastic Problem, J. Appl. Mech., 47, 82-86, 1980.
- R. C. Batra, Quasistatic Indentation of a Rubber Covered Roll by a Rigid Roll, Int. J. Num. Meth. Engr., 17, 1823-1834, 1981.
- R. C. Batra, M. Levinson and E. Betz, Rubber Covered Rolls, The Thermoviscoelastic Problem, A Finite Element Solution, Int. J. Num. Meth. Engng., 10, 767-785, 1976.
- C. N. Bapat and R. C. Batra, Indentation of a Viscoelastic Rubber Covered Roll by a Rigid Plane Surface, Mechs. Research Communications, 9, 265-272, 1982.
- C. N. Bapat and R. C. Batra, Finite Plane Strain Deformations of Nonlinear Viscoelastic Rubber Covered Rolls, Int. J. Num. Meth. Engng., 20, 1911-1927, 1984.
- C. N. Bapat and R. C. Batra, Finite Deformations of a Viscoelastic Roll Cover Contacting a Rigid Plane Surface, Commun. Appl. Numerical Methods, 1, 169-176, 1985.
- W. Jiang and R. C. Batra, Identification of Elastic Constants of FCC Metals from 2D Load-Indentation Curves, Computational Materials Science, 45, 511-515, 2009.
- R. C. Batra and Wen Jiang, Analytical Solution of the Contact Problem of a Rigid Indenter and an Anisotropic Linear Elastic Layer, International J. of Solids and Structures, 45, 5814-5830, 2008.
- A. A. Spector and R. C. Batra, On Contact Interaction Between a Massive Body and a Linear Elastic Half Space, Cont. Mechs. & Thermodynamics,7, 179-198, 1995.
- A. Spector and R. C. Batra, Rolling/Sliding of a Linear Elastic Body on a Deformable Layered Substrate, Int. J. Nonlinear Mechs., 29, 335-348, 1994.
- A. A. Spector and R. C. Batra, On the Motion of an Elastic Body Rolling/Sliding on an Elastic Substrate, ASME J. Tribology, 117, 308- 314, 1995.