Elastic field for a sliding conical punch on an isotropic half-space

Hanson showed that by taking a limiting form of his expressions for transverse isotropy he was able to obtain the isotropic solution and it agreed with Sneddon's results. The forms of the expressions are quite different, however, and it seems that the form recently derived by Hanson is simpler since only two distorted length parameters are needed and the elastic field is given in simple forms of them. The solution given by Sneddon (1948) contains four parameters, two of which is not quite so convenient. Here the expressions for shear loading are derived for isotropy. They have not been given previously in the literature.