Popov, Valentin L.Pohrt, RomanHeß, Markus2017-10-232017-10-2320160309-3247https://depositonce.tu-berlin.de/handle/11303/6798http://dx.doi.org/10.14279/depositonce-6182Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.This publication is with permission of the rights owner freely accessible due to an Alliance licence and a national licence (funded by the DFG, German Research Foundation) respectively.In this article, we show that the normal contact problem between two elastic bodies in the half-space approximation can always be transformed to an equivalent problem of the indentation of a profile into an elastic Winkler foundation. Once determined, the equivalent profile can also be used for tangential contact problems and arbitrary superimposed normal and tangential loading histories as well as for treating of contact problems with linearly viscoelastic bodies. In the case of axis-symmetric shapes, the equivalent profile is given by the method of dimensionality reduction integral transformation. For all other shapes, the profile is deduced from the solution of the elastic contact normal problem, which can be obtained numerically or experimentally.en620 Ingenieurwissenschaften und zugeordnete Tätigkeitenfrictionslidingcontactmethod of dimensionality reductionMindlinArticle2041-3130