The virtual contact loading method is further developed in this paper to study the multi-body contact phenomena within solid and hollow roller bearings. The distributive virtual contact loads are used to simulate the contact constraint forces oneach contact surface. The deepest penetration criterion is proposed to select and determine the contact nodes in an orderly way, so as to ensure the local iteration process converged and to increase the computational efficiency. The load distributionswithin the solid and hollow roller bearings have been studied in more detail and some reasonable results are obtained.
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