A resumé is given of the results available in the literature for the stresses resulting from frictionless loading by Hertz pressures. The problem is posed formally in tensor notation and new convenient forms are given for the complete stress field, in the general elliptical-patch case.
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Sackfield et al. (1983) studied this question.
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