SUBSTANTIATION OF DESIGN DECISIONS OF ELEMENTS OF MILITARY OBJECTS IN CONDITIONS OF CONTACT AND PLASTIC DEFORMATION

New design solutions, technologies and materials are required to improve tactical and technical characteristics of military equipment. Often this implies operation in such conditions as contact interaction and elasto-plastic deformations of materials. New models and research methods are developed for better utilization of modern materials and improved performance of military equipment. They account directly for complex physical and structural nonlinearities. The properties of conventional and novel materials are determined both in bulk and on surfaces at microstructural level. This will enable physically adequate and mathematically correct analysis of stress-strain state. The new advanced design solutions will emerge through the objective-driven search by means of parametric modeling. The project will extend traditional local problem statements with newly developed variational principles that account for structural and physical nonlinearity and are suitable for parameterization. This will create the basis for fundamental analysis of torsion bar suspensions, hydrovolumetric and gear drives and other crucial components of combat vehicles, engineering solutions for domestic manufacturers of military equipment that will bring their tactical and technical characteristics to highest modern standards. Keywords: contact interaction; stress-strain state; intermediate layer; contact pressure; contact area; plastic deformation