Ricker, S.S.RickerMenzel, A.A.MenzelSteinmann, P.P.Steinmann2022-03-052022-03-052006https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/25146210.1002/pamm.200610307Spinning wheels, or rather steady rolling cylinder-like deformable bodies occur in many mechanical (contact) problems, e.g. car- or aircraft-tires, gears or grinding processes. In order to avoid transient calculation for such problems and in order to obtain a steady-state formulation we make use of a model - advocated by Oden and Lin in [1] and further elaborated by Govindjee andMihalic in [2] - based on a spinning reference coordinate system. After developing the kinematics and deriving the weak formulation we will show the existence of a weak solution for the linearized spinning wheel problem by applying the Lax Milgram Lemma. The presented contribution will be concluded by some numerical examples.en510Existence of solutions to the linearized spinning wheel problemjournal article